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Photo by mohbhorn. Location: Vachirabenjatas Park, Bangkok, Thailand
Photo by jweeyh. Location: Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Singapore

Alternative name: Robin Flycatcher

Ficedula mugimaki

Identification

13 to 13.5 cm. Black upperparts, short white supercilium behind the eye, white wing-patch, white edges to the tertials and white at the base of the outer tail-feathers. Orange red breast and throat, white belly and undertail-coverts. Female - grey-brown above, pale orange-brown breast and throat. No white in the tail, one or two pale wingbars rather than a white wing-patch and faint or absent supercilium. Young males are similar to the female but have a brighter orange breast, white in the tail and a more obvious supercilium.

Distribution

Eastern Asia and Siberia and north-east China. Accidental vagrant to Alaska with 1 record.

Taxonomy

Habitat

High altitude forest and woodland.

Behaviour

Its diet includes insects which are caught in flight.

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