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Mugimaki Flycatcher - BirdForum Opus

Photo © by mohbhorn
Vachirabenjatas Park, Bangkok, Thailand

Alternative name: Robin Flycatcher

Ficedula mugimaki

Identification

Female
Photo © by jweeyh
Singapore, December 2018

12·5–13·5 cm (5-5¼ in)

  • 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

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.

Distribution

Eastern Asia; breeding from central-southern Siberia east to north-eastern China and Sakhalin, and migrating to southern China, Vietnam, Laos, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia in winter; also frequent on migration in Korea, Japan and Thailand.

Accidental vagrant to Alaska with 1 record.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species[1].

Habitat

They breed in submontane broadleaf and conifer forests

Behaviour

Diet

Primarily insects; rarely also berries and seeds.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2018. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2018. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved December 2014)

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