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Photo by mohbhorn
Vachirabenjatas Park, Bangkok, Thailand

Alternative name: Robin Flycatcher

Ficedula mugimaki

[edit] Identification

13 to 13.5 cm

• Black upperparts
• Short white supercilium
• White wing-patch
• White edges to the tertials
• White at the base of the outer tail-feathers
• Orange red breast and throat
• White belly and undertail-coverts
  

Photo by jweeyh
Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Singapore

Female

• Grey-brown above
• Pale orange-brown breast and throat
• No white in the tail
• One or two pale wingbars
• Faint or absent supercilium
  

Young males

• Similar to the female but have a brighter orange breast, white in the tail and a more obvious supercilium.

[edit] Distribution

They range from Eurasia north of the Himalayas, north-eastern China, Japan, and they fly to e.g., Singapore in migration.

Accidental vagrant to Alaska with 1 record.

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic^[1]

[edit] Habitat

High altitude forest and woodland.

[edit] Behaviour

Its diet includes insects which are caught in flight.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Wikipedia

• List of references

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