Green-backed Flycatcher

How to identify

Field marks

1. Gray-green upperparts
2. Buff eye-ring and a short yellow stripe in front of the eye
3. Black wings and tail; white feather edges on coverts and flight feathers
4. Yellow underparts and rump

Where and when it's recorded

Green-backed Flycatcher has been recorded at 147 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 6 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Man Nai IslandThailand235 records
2. Dairy Farm Nature ParkSingapore226 records
3. Taman Botani Negara Shah AlamMalaysia138 records

Countries and regions with the most records

ChinaSingaporeThailandMalaysiaVietnamSouth 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 green-backed flycatcher (Ficedula elisae) is a bird in the family Muscicapidae, which contains the Old World flycatchers. It was long considered to be a subspecies of the narcissus flycatcher, but morphological and acoustical differences between the two indicate they are instead separate species. It breeds in northeastern China and winters in southeast Asia.

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