Flycatcher ID help

Hello Joseph and others, Thank you Chris for pointing out my error – a senior moment – as the pics on my website clearly show, the white (or partially white, HANZAB) tail feathers are the outer ones in female and young Broad-billed. I don’t think there’s much doubt about it being a young bird – the gape is heavily tumoured. The rectrices appear pointed as well. Picture #1 gives me the impression that the rectrices are of even length – there is a suggestion of white at the outer tips in both pics # 1 and #2 but I would expect to see more white in a young Broad-billed. So there is a possibility that it could be a Broad-billed but one thing is clear, we’ll never know for sure because the pictures are not good enough to be diagnostic. Graeme Chapman


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