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title: "White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher"
description: "Melaenornis fischeri — Uccelli. The white-eyed slaty flycatcher (Melaenornis fischeri) is a small passerine bird of the genus Melaenornis in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/white-eyed-slaty-flycatcher
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher

> Melaenornis fischeri — Uccelli. The white-eyed slaty flycatcher (Melaenornis fischeri) is a small passerine bird of the genus Melaenornis in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.

- Scientific name: *Melaenornis fischeri*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `mountains` (Montagne)
- iNaturalist observations: 1155
- Wikidata: [Q681674](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q681674)
- iNaturalist taxon: [145018](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/145018)

## Names

- en: White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher
- de: Bergdrongoschäpper
- es: Papamoscas de Fischer
- fr: Gobemouche de Fischer
- nl: Melaeornis fischeri
- pt: Papa-moscas-de-olho-branco
- pl: Mucharka białooka

## Countries with the most observations

KE (529), TZ (252), UG (173), RW (86), MW (15), BI (4)

## Summary

The white-eyed slaty flycatcher (Melaenornis fischeri) is a small passerine bird of the genus Melaenornis in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.  It is native to the African highlands from Ethiopia and Kenya through Rwanda to eastern Zaire and Malawi. The sub-species M. f. toruensis occurs in Rwanda and Burundi and has an inconspicuous eye-ring.
The specific epithet commemorates the German explorer Gustav Adolf Fischer.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-eyed_slaty_flycatcher

## Photo

![White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/white-eyed-slaty-flycatcher/medium.jpg)

Photo: Andrew Holle · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/363264109

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/white-eyed-slaty-flycatcher?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).