Short abstract from the book: The spotted flycatcher is a common breeding bird in woodland
in all parts of Denmark. It arrives at the breeding grounds in
May and departs in August-September. Migrants pass through
Denmark during May-June and August-October. In Denmark
the first spotted flycatcher was ringed in 1921, with the greatest numbers ringed in the 1980s and first half of the 1990s.
The recovered birds were ringed from May to September in
many parts of the country, though most on Christiansø. The
ringed spotted flycatchers were mainly of Scandinavian origin. The mean position is in central Sweden in June-July but
in August this has moved to Denmark. The first recoverys migrate due S, although the autumn recoveries from
the Mediterranean are distributed from Portugal in the west
to Libya in the east. Birds ringed in western Denmark have
tended to migrate west of south and birds ringed in eastern
Denmark east of south. All long-distance recoveries (>150 km)
of birds ringed as chicks in Denmark were from a westerly
direction. No birds have been recovered during winter; however three have been recovered in Africa during spring – in DR
Congo (25 March), Niger (5 May) and Algeria (10 May).
Most of the spring recoveries are from Denmark. A fast bird
flew from Chriatiansø to Finland (316 km/day) in late May.
Twenty-eight per cent of the recoveries were controls of live
birds. Of 38 dead birds, 21 were reported with an unknown
cause of death, seven had been hunted, five killed in traffic
and three had collided with windows.
Read more about the species in the chapter from The Danish Bird Migration Atlashere
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