Brown-breasted Flycatcher

How to identify

Field marks

1. White chin and throat; pale brown breast and flanks
2. Conspicuous eye-ring and pale lores
3. Olive-brown upperparts
4. Pale flesh-colored legs and feet and lower mandible

Voice

Often a very soft “tseet”, audible only at close range; or a series of “chi-chi-chi-chi”, ending with a low “chit-chit”.

Similar species

Asian Brown Flycatcher

Asian Brown Flycatcher has black legs and feet, while Brown-breasted Flycatcher has pale flesh-colored legs and feet.

Where and when it's recorded

Brown-breasted Flycatcher has been recorded at 263 of the 8,276 birding hotspots we track, in 13 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Rabindra SarovarIndia1,017 records
2. Sinharaja Forest ReserveSri Lanka572 records
3. Bondla Wildlife SanctuaryIndia565 records

Countries and regions with the most records

IndiaSri LankaChinaThailandNepalBangladeshSingaporeVietnam

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The brown-breasted flycatcher or Layard's flycatcher (Muscicapa muttui) is a small passerine bird in the flycatcher family Muscicapidae. The species breeds in north eastern India, central and Southern China and northern Burma and Thailand, and migrates to southern India and Sri Lanka. It forages for insects below the forest canopy, often close to the forest floor.

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