Yellow-rumped Flycatcher

How to identify

Field marks

1. Male has a black back, white supercilium, and white wing patch
2. Male has a yellow rump, throat, breast, and upper belly
3. Male has a white lower belly and undertail-coverts
4. Yellow rump is conspicuous in all plumages

Male, female and young

Female has gray or olive upperparts, paler underparts, a wing patch, and a yellow rump; one-year-old male also has olive-gray upperparts, with a blackish tail.

Voice

A low, gasping “tr-r-r-rt”.

Similar species

Narcissus Flycatcher

Yellow-rumped Flycatcher can be distinguished from Narcissus Flycatcher by the male's white supercilium and the female's yellow rump.

Green-backed Flycatcher

The male Yellow-rumped Flycatcher's white supercilium distinguishes it from Green-backed Flycatcher.

Where and when it's recorded

Busiest months: April–May · Most records: China, Singapore, Thailand

Yellow-rumped Flycatcher has been recorded at 725 of the 8,276 birding hotspots we track, in 13 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Man Nai IslandThailand500 records
2. Nanhui DongtanChina414 records
3. BidadariSingapore291 records

Countries and regions with the most records

ChinaSingaporeThailandSouth KoreaMalaysiaRussiaIndonesiaCambodia

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 yellow-rumped flycatcher (Ficedula zanthopygia), also known as Korean flycatcher or tricolor flycatcher, is a species of flycatcher found in eastern Asia. A distinctive species with almost no look-alike other than the narcissus flycatcher. It breeds in eastern Asia including parts of Mongolia, Transbaikal, southern China, Korea and western Japan.

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