Chapin's Flycatcher
Fraseria lendu (Chapin, 1932)
Muscicapidae — Chats, Old World Flycatchers
Chapin's Flycatcher, Fraseria lendu, is a bird of the montane forests of the Albertine Rift in north-east and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, south-west Uganda and west Kenya. It belongs to the Old World flycatcher family, Muscicapidae. A notable point in its history is that the Itombwe Flycatcher was once treated as the same species. Its habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. The common name honours the American ornithologist James Paul Chapin.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Muscicapidae — Chats, Old World Flycatchers
- Breeding range
- Africa: ne, e DR Congo, sw Uganda and w Kenya
