Leaden Flycatcher vs Shining Flycatcher: How to Tell Them Apart

Leaden Flycatcher

Myiagra rubecula

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The leaden flycatcher is 14.5–16 cm (6-6½ in) long and weighs around 10–15 g. It is a shiny lead-grey in colour with a brownish tinge to the wings, a bluish black bill, black legs and dark brown iris. The male has darker grey lores, and a white breast and belly, while the female has an orange-tan throat and breast with a white belly. The juvenile resembles the adult female, but with paler wing-edges.

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Recorded by James Ray · Call · Faulconbridge, Blue Mountains City Council, New South Wales, Australia · CC BY-SA 4.0

Photo: Damien O'Donnell · CC BY 4.0

Shining Flycatcher

Myiagra alecto

Small24 gRiverine

A long-tailed, slender songbird with fine bill. Male entirely glossy blue-black. Female a rich chestnut above, white below, with black crown and face (in poor light, may appear dark above; compare Restless and Paperbark flycatchers). Song a clear whistled "towhit-too-towhit."

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Photo: Greg Schechter from San Francisco, USA · CC BY 2.0

Where you might meet both

Australia Papua New Guinea Indonesia

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