Red-breasted Flycatcher

How to identify

Field marks

1. Male has a gray head and orange throat during the breeding season
2. Conspicuous white eye-ring in all plumages
3. All-black tail with white bases to the outer tail feathers
4. Black bill with a pale pink base

Male, female and young

Female and juvenile are similar in color, but lack the orange throat patch.

Voice

Song consists of repeated sweet whistles that carry far; mostly quiet in winter, but gives a typical flycatcher call, “chip-chip-chr-rrr”.

Similar species

Taiga Flycatcher

This species is warmer-colored overall, with a larger orange throat patch, a brighter bill, and more pale pink at the base of the bill.

Where and when it's recorded

Busiest months: February · Most records: India, China, United Kingdom

Red-breasted Flycatcher has been recorded at 577 of the 8,276 birding hotspots we track, in 67 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Kanha NP – Mukki ZoneIndia2,216 records
2. Bharatpur – Keoladeo Ghana NPIndia2,066 records
3. Sultanpur National ParkIndia1,600 records

Countries and regions with the most records

IndiaChinaUnited KingdomIranTürkiyePolandBulgariaAzerbaijan

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 red-breasted flycatcher (Ficedula parva) is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family. It breeds in eastern Europe and across Central Asia and is migratory, wintering in south Asia. The breeding male is mainly muted brown above and white below, with a grey head and an orange throat.

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