Dark-sided Flycatcher

How to identify

Field marks

1. Dark gray-brown upperparts with a single pale wing-bar
2. White throat with a white half-collar beside it
3. Variable dark gray-brown streaks on breast and flanks
4. Large eyes with a single whitish eye-ring

Male, female and young

Adult sexes similar; juvenile has pale spots on the upperparts, a mottled breast, and buff tips to the wing-coverts.

Voice

Song is a series of fine, high-pitched notes interspersed with trills and whistles; call resembles metallic jingling.

Similar species

Asian Brown Flycatcher

Asian Brown Flycatcher has plainer, paler underparts; Dark-sided Flycatcher's primaries project farther, making the wingtips appear longer.

Grey-streaked Flycatcher

Grey-streaked Flycatcher has white underparts with conspicuous gray stripes.

Where and when it's recorded

Dark-sided Flycatcher has been recorded at 978 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 23 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Danum Valley Borneo Rainforest LodgeMalaysia402 records
2. Kaeng Krachan NP – Panoen Thung (upper elevation) vicinityThailand376 records
3. Kaeng Krachan NPThailand364 records

Countries and regions with the most records

ChinaThailandMalaysiaSingaporeIndiaNepalBhutanSouth Korea

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 dark-sided flycatcher (Muscicapa sibirica) is a small passerine bird belonging to the genus Muscicapa in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. It has a wide breeding distribution in the East Palearctic with northern birds migrating south for the winter. It is also known as the Siberian flycatcher or sooty flycatcher, the latter name is also used for the sooty flycatcher (Artomyias infuscata) of Africa.

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