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title: "Collared Flycatcher"
description: "Ficedula albicollis — Vogels. The collared flycatcher (Ficedula albicollis) is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family, one of the four species of Western Palearctic black-and-white flycatchers."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/collared-flycatcher
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Collared Flycatcher

> Ficedula albicollis — Vogels. The collared flycatcher (Ficedula albicollis) is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family, one of the four species of Western Palearctic black-and-white flycatchers.

- Scientific name: *Ficedula albicollis*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos)
- iNaturalist observations: 4568
- Wikidata: [Q690826](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q690826)
- iNaturalist taxon: [13133](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/13133)

## Names

- en: Collared Flycatcher
- de: Halsbandschnäpper
- es: Papamoscas Acollarado
- fr: Gobemouche à collier
- pt: Papa-moscas-de-colar
- pl: Muchołówka białoszyja

## Countries with the most observations

RU (1500), UA (603), AT (258), CZ (192), DE (178), IT (169), TR (157), PL (145), GR (138), RO (112), IL (96), HU (77)

## Summary

The collared flycatcher (Ficedula albicollis) is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family, one of the four species of Western Palearctic black-and-white flycatchers.  It breeds in southeast Europe (isolated populations are present in the islands of Gotland and Öland in the Baltic Sea, Sweden) and Eastern France to the Balkan Peninsula and Ukraine and is migratory, wintering in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is a rare vagrant in western Europe.
This is a 12–13.5 cm long bird. The breeding male is mainly black above and white below, with a white collar, large white wing patch, black tail (although some males…

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

## Photo

![Collared Flycatcher](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/collared-flycatcher/medium.jpg)

Photo: Tero Linjama · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/366073942

## Machine access

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