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Pied flycatcher        Images © Mark A. Chappell

The pied flycatcher is much more common throughout much of Europe than its relative the collared flycatcher, but I found very few in Poland.   In most of their range, male pied flycatchers are a striking black and white, but in eastern areas they are often slate-gray and white instead, as in this bird.   It was photographed in thick deciduous woodland in the small town of Bialowieza, in northeastern Poland.

  • Canon 1D3, 800 mm IS lens with 1.4X converter, fill-in flash (2009)