Spotted Flycatcher

How to identify

Field marks

1. Rufous stripes on crown, throat, and breast
2. Dull gray-brown upperparts and grayish-white underparts
3. Short black legs and feet; black bill, broad and pointed
4. Narrow pale feather edges on wings and tail feathers

Male, female and young

Sexes similar; juvenile has ochre spots on the upperparts and rufous scaling on the underparts.

Voice

A thin, drawn-out, soft, high-pitched “tssssseeeeeppppp”, falling slightly in pitch.

Where and when it's recorded

Spotted Flycatcher has been recorded at 1,818 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 127 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Jerusalem Bird ObservatoryIsrael1,635 records
2. International Birding and Research Center Eilat (IBRCE)Israel1,622 records
3. Txingudi – PlaiaundiSpain1,226 records

Countries and regions with the most records

SpainUnited KingdomIsraelPortugalSouth AfricaKenyaUnited Arab EmiratesGreece

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 spotted flycatcher (Muscicapa striata) is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family. It breeds in most of Europe and in the Palearctic to Siberia, and is migratory, wintering in Africa and south western Asia. It is declining in parts of its range.

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