Tessmann's Flycatcher
Fraseria tessmanni
A plain, strong-billed rainforest flycatcher that is dark gray and black on the upperparts and pale below. Sometimes shows a vague darker gray band across the breast. Scarce and local in rainforest clearings, secondary forest, overgrown plantations, and forest edge, mostly at the middle levels. Most similar to Dusky-blue Flycatcher, but has much paler underparts. Also similar to Cassin’s Flycatcher, but has paler underparts, and not strongly associated with water. Similar in coloration to Little Gray Flycatcher, but much larger and paler below. The song is pretty and thrush-like: a mixture of whistles and trills given at a conversational rhythm.
Taxonomy
Tessmann's flycatcher was formally described in 1907 by the German ornithologist Anton Reichenow under given the binomial name Psalidoprocne tessmanni. The specific epithet was chosen to honour the German anthropologist and collector Günter Tessmann (1889–1971). Tessmann's flycatcher is now one of eight species placed in the genus Fraseria that was introduced in 1854 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte. The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.
- Scientific name
- Fraseria tessmanni
- Authority
- (Reichenow, 1907)
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Muscicapidae
- Genus
- Fraseria
Range and habitat
- Migration
- Resident species
Conservation
- Population trend
- unknown
Photos
Distribution
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