Amur Paradise Flycatcher

Terpsiphone incei

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesWoodlandCup nestSmall · 19 g

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Males can come in two forms differing in the colour of their upperparts. Otherwise, all adult males have black hoods, white underparts, small crests, and blue eye rings. While breeding, the males can have tails twice the length of the body.

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When to see the Amur Paradise Flycatcher

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 7 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Amur Paradise Flycatcher

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 13 countries with regular records, and 4 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in India, South Korea, Bangladesh, Philippines.

About the Amur Paradise Flycatcher

The Amur paradise flycatcher is a bird species in the family Monarchidae. It is native to China and Primorsky Krai in the Russian Far East. It is a winter migrant to Southeast Asia. Until 2015, it was considered as a subspecies of the Asian paradise flycatcher.

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