Mugimaki Flycatcher

How to identify

Field marks

1. Male has black upperparts and a short white supercilium behind the eye
2. Male has an orange-red throat and breast and a white belly
3. Male has white wing patches
4. Male has white feather edges on the tertials and white bases to the outer tail feathers

Male, female and young

Female has gray-brown upperparts, a pale orange-brown throat and breast, no white on the tail, and pale wing-bars. Young male resembles the female, but has a more orange breast and white on the tail.

Voice

Call is a series of quavering sounds.

Where and when it's recorded

Busiest months: April and October · Most records: China, Malaysia, Singapore

Mugimaki Flycatcher has been recorded at 615 of the 8,276 birding hotspots we track, in 15 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Nanhui DongtanChina507 records
2. Kinabalu Park – HQ areaMalaysia411 records
3. Bukit FraserMalaysia327 records

Countries and regions with the most records

ChinaMalaysiaSingaporeThailandVietnamSouth KoreaJapanIndonesia

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 mugimaki flycatcher (Ficedula mugimaki) is a small passerine bird of eastern Asia belonging to the genus Ficedula in the Old World flycatcher family, Muscicapidae. The name "mugimaki" comes from Japanese and means "wheat-sower". The bird is also known as the robin flycatcher.

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