Abyssinian slaty flycatcher

Description:

The Abyssinian flycatcher is also known as Abyssinian chocolate flycatcher (the name confirmed by its scientific pseudo). For an endemic bird, a rather non-descript flycatcher - some 15cm in length, brown grey bird with darker back and pale eye, and a long tail.

Habitat:

Endemic to Ethiopian highlands, and some parts of Eritrea. Seen around the lake Awasa (Hawasa) in central Ethiopia, a place I once qualified as birdwatchers paradise...

Notes:

This photo just received its ID today, after some fifteen years of "rotting" in my 'bottom-drawer-file' - a file where I keep unidentified species... Thanks to many pals from African Bird Club, this file is gradually getting smaller and smaller... Anyway, back in the days this photo was taken (as my son would say - 'ancient times') when we were shooting our photos and then changing film rolls every 24 or 36 pics... In short, back then, it seems I'd gotten a glitch in my archives, and this beauty ended up under the wrong country file. So, for a 15 years I was trying to identify an Abyssinian endemic under Kenya bird lists... Until today. Thanks ABC (African Bird Club). By the way, the photos are the one and the same, I just tried to vary settings in order to find the ID...