Flycatcher from Pakistan (1 Viewer)

[Azan Khan]

Hi. Can you please confirm if it is really Brown-breasted Flycatcher? Its lower mandible isn't pale enough though. Your valuable feedback is required.

Thanks

Photos by Waja Sadiq Baloch
November 2021
Karachi, Pakistan

 

[delia todd]

Hi Azan

Sorry I can't help with the identity of this bird, so I'll move your post to the more appropriate
ID forum

Someone will soon be along I'm sure.

 

[Butty]

Could you please give the location - reasonably precisely? Thanks.
I could guess at the date from the filenames, but could you please confirm it - thanks.
These things are important for ID.

 

[Azan Khan]

Could you please give the location - reasonably precisely? Thanks.
I could guess at the date from the filenames, but could you please confirm it - thanks.
These things are important for ID.

Malir, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
23 Nov, 2021

We only had two country's records of Brown-breasted Flycatchers. If this bird gets confirmed, it would be country's 3rd record!

 

[Azan Khan]

Could you please give the location - reasonably precisely? Thanks.
I could guess at the date from the filenames, but could you please confirm it - thanks.
These things are important for ID.

Thanks! I appreciate it.

 

[Butty]

Does look good. Pale legs may help to rule out Asian brown flycatcher. I can't see anything else that would be a decent match. Pass.

 

[Grahame Walbridge]

A Brown-breasted Flycatcher, there is absolutely no doubt Azan, a great find! The combination of white lores, spectacles, sub-moustachials and throat. warm brown upper parts, fulvous sides and pink legs confirm ID beyond doubt. The lower mandible should be unmarked but that is merely a lighting issue.

Grahame

 

[Butty]

lower mandible should be unmarked but that is merely a lighting issue

I would be sure that's not a lighting issue: the two views of the bill - from the side and from below, one in sunlight and one in shade - are consistent in the clear demarcation between light and dark sections of the lower mandible. But Macaulay photos do show variable amounts of dark on the the distal half of the lower mandible.

 

[Grahame Walbridge]

I would be sure that's not a lighting issue: the two views of the bill - from the side and from below, one in sunlight and one in shade - are consistent in the clear demarcation between light and dark sections of the lower mandible. But Macaulay photos do show variable amounts of dark on the the distal half of the lower mandible.

Thanks Butty for pointing that out, bill pattern more variable than I supposed for sure.

Grahame

 

[andyb39]

A Brown-breasted Flycatcher, there is absolutely no doubt Azan, a great find! The combination of white lores, spectacles, sub-moustachials and throat. warm brown upper parts, fulvous sides and pink legs confirm ID beyond doubt. The lower mandible should be unmarked but that is merely a lighting issue.

Grahame

Agree, no doubt whatsoever!