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COLLARED FLYCATCHER
  Bird Call
| Characteristics: |
Just under 13 cm long and weighs approx. 13 g. The male's breeding plumage is extremely rich in contrast with a black back, white underparts, broad white collar and white forehead and wing patches. The female is grey-brown, where the male is black but has a similar extent of white in the wing. |
| Call: |
The song consists of short, rather high-pitched and slower paced strophes that sound like trew tsit trew tsit. In addition refined seeb, heet or fyit contact calls can also be heard. |
| Habitat: |
The Collared Flycatcher is found in mature deciduous woodlands, parks, graveyards and orchards. It requires natural tree-holes for nesting but will readily avail of nestboxes where they are made available.
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| Distribution: |
The Collared Flycatcher is a summer visitor to Central Europe, arriving in April and departing in September. Its very close relative, the Pied Flycatcher occupies a similar niche over a much wider area of Europe, including western and northern regions of Britain.
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| Biology: |
The Collared Flycatcher's diet is primarily made up of insect prey which, like all flycatchers, it is adept at snatching in the air. It usually nests in tree hollows and builds an untidy structure out of blades of grass, leaves and moss. The clutch comprises between 3 and 8 plain coloured pale blue eggs. 1 brood a year; clutches from May. The male may mate with several female partners.
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