Brown-chested Jungle Flycatcher

How to identify

Field marks

1. Adult has a long bill, black above and yellow below
2. Adult has pale brown markings on the breast
3. Pink feet

Male, female and young

Juvenile has brown scaling on the upperparts and a black tip to the lower mandible.

Voice

Gives a grating trill; during courtship, gives 2–5 consecutive calls at an unchanging pitch.

Where and when it's recorded

Brown-chested Jungle Flycatcher has been recorded at 158 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 6 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

To protect this bird from disturbance, we don't list exact sites.

Countries and regions with the most records

SingaporeChinaThailandMalaysiaIndonesiaVietnam

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-chested jungle flycatcher (Cyornis brunneatus) is a species of bird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. It breeds in South China and winters in the Malay Peninsula. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.

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