Spotted Flycatcher

The spotted flycatcher is a small, slim, undistinguished-looking bird about 14.5 centimetres long, weighing 14–20 grams, with long wings and tail. The adults have dull grey-brown upperparts and off-white underparts, with a brown-streaked crown, throat and breast that give the bird its name, and paler thin margins to the wing and tail feathers. The legs are short and black and the black bill has the broad but pointed shape typical of aerial insect-eaters. Juveniles are browner, with ochre-buff spots above and scaly brown spots below. (Wikipedia, general species account)

It breeds in most of Europe and across the Palearctic to Siberia, and is migratory, wintering in Africa and southwestern Asia. It is declining in parts of its range. The subspecies tyrrhenica of the Mediterranean islands has paler, warmer upperparts and more diffuse markings on the head and breast. (Wikipedia, general species account)