Narcissus Flycatcher

How to identify

Field marks

1. Male has a vivid orange throat and paler breast and belly during the breeding season
2. Male has an orange-yellow supercilium during the breeding season
3. Male has a black crown and back during the breeding season
4. Male has white patches on black wings during the breeding season

Male, female and young

Female is entirely different from the male, mostly rufous-brown with a rusty tinge to the wings and a two-toned eye-ring; non-breeding-season males vary in the intensity of their yellow.

Voice

During the breeding season, the male sings repeated melodious whistles.

Where and when it's recorded

Narcissus Flycatcher has been recorded at 363 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 11 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Yeliu IBATaiwan (China)848 records
2. Matsu – Dongyin Vegetable FarmChina654 records
3. Nanhui DongtanChina545 records

Countries and regions with the most records

ChinaJapanSouth KoreaThailandMalaysiaPhilippinesSingaporeVietnam

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 narcissus flycatcher (Ficedula narcissina) is a passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family. It is native to the East Palearctic, from Sakhalin to the north, through Japan across through Korea, mainland China, and Taiwan (China), wintering in southeast Asia, including the Philippines, Vietnam and Borneo. It is highly migratory, and has been found as a vagrant from Australia in the south to Alaska in the north Archived 2006-01-10 at the Wayback Machine.

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