Flycatcher, Bangkok, Thailand, 7 Nov 2024 (1 Viewer)

[Milkteeth]

Hi. I took this short video of a flycatcher in Bangkok yesterday. Unfortunately, out of focus. [video won’t attach so will attach it below the post].

I suspect this to be a female Ficedula Flycatcher.
It had greenish upperparts, mucky pale front that was more yellowish in the throat and breast, a dark bill and a pale eyering. Wing feathers a little more brownish than the rest of the uppers.

Green-backed Flycatcher is an expected though scarce passage migrant at this time.
Narcissus Flycatcher turns up in Bangkok on Spring passage but has apparently (at least on Ebird) never been recorded in the Autumn/Fall.

We are now past the expected Yellow-rumped season, and this bird lacks pale wingbars.

Habitat was scrubby woodland in an old cemetery.

 

[Milkteeth]

Video:

 

[HouseCrow]

Not Brown-breasted Flycatcher? Or is that way off (no experience with the species myself)

cheers
Gerben

 

[johnallcock]

It looks fine for female/fist winter male Green-backed to me. Female Narcissus shouldn't be yellow on the breast like this bird.

Not Brown-breasted Flycatcher? Or is that way off (no experience with the species myself)

cheers
Gerben

Not Brown-breasted, which should have a longer bill with pale lower mandible (usually quite obvious), browner back (no olive tones as on this bird) and no yellow on the breast.

 

[Milkteeth]

Not Brown-breasted Flycatcher? Or is that way off (no experience with the species myself)

cheers
Gerben

Thanks Gerben.
As John said, this bird had a dark bill and more colour in the plumage than the Muscicapa flycatchers in these parts (Asian Brown being the most common visitor).

 

[Milkteeth]

It looks fine for female/fist winter male Green-backed to me. Female Narcissus shouldn't be yellow on the breast like this bird.



Not Brown-breasted, which should have a longer bill with pale lower mandible (usually quite obvious), browner back (no olive tones as on this bird) and no yellow on the breast.

Thanks a lot John.
One or two adult male Green-backed were seen at the same location the following day, plus a couple more elsewhere in the city, so it seems we’re bang on the time they are passing through.