Photo by ruchaiPhoto taken: Si Racha, Thailand
- Muscicapa sibirica
Identification
13-14cm.
- Dark grey brown above
- White throat
- White half collar
- Centre of lower breast and belly are white
- Pale wingbar
- Breast and flanks streaked dark grey brown
- Pale submoustachial stripe
- Dark malar stripe
- White eyering
- Short dark bill
- Black feet
- Sexes alike
Juvenile
- Pale spots above
- Mottled breast
- Buff tipped wing coverts
Distribution
Siberia, Mongolia, n e China, North Korea, Japan, Myanmar, s e Tibet, Afghanistan, and Kashmir.
Taxonomy
There are 4 subspecies.
Habitat
Coniferous and mixed forest.
Behaviour
The diet includes insects which are aerially hawked.
The nest is cup-shaped nest; 3-4 pale green with red markings eggs are laid.
References
Wikipedia
