- Ficedula zanthopygia
Identification
Identification
Male - Black upper parts with white supercilium, bold white wing patch with thin white streak on inner secondaries and bright yellow rump diagnostic. Underparts bright yellow with white under tail coverts. Female. Olive brown upperparts with yellow rump diagnostic. Shows thin wingbar and thin pale streak on inner secondaries. Underparts pale yellowish buff with fine olive brown scalings on throat and breast. Shows diagnostic white orbital and pale lores.
Distribution
Eastern Asia, North Korea and China. From 1992, the species has been seen to winter in Central and Southern India.
Taxonomy
A distinctive species with almost no lookalike other than the Narcissus flycatcher. Hartert (1907) treated this as a part of the narcissina group.
Included in this species complex was the species called Elise's Flycatcher. Weigold (1922) found this species to be distinct and found the elisae and zanthopygia species breeding in the same area in oak forest near Peking.
Habitat
Forests, forest edges, scrubs, plantations and wooded areas.
Behaviour
Solitary,frquents the lower storey but will also feed in the canopy. Often quiet and unobtrusive.
