East Africa hosts extraordinary flycatcher diversity, tiny insect-hawks occupying every habitat. The African paradise flycatcher’s impossibly long tail ribbons trail through coastal forests and gardens.

Silverbirds perch conspicuously on acacias, flycatching across savannas. White-eyed slaty flycatchers haunt montane forests, while spotted flycatchers arrive as Palearctic migrants. The minuscule grey tit-flycatcher weighs less than a teaspoon of sugar yet defends territories fiercely.

Pale flycatchers inhabit dry thornbush, and sooty flycatchers patrol forest edges. Watch them sallying from perches quick aerial pursuits ending with audible bill-snaps.