Learn what every symbol on the card means.Full credits and sources at beakbrain.com/symbols
ForestCavity nestTiny · 13 g
ID tip
The dark-sided flycatcher is 13 to 14 cm (5.1 to 5.5 in) in overall length. The upperparts are plain and dark grey-brown apart from a pale wingbar and pale edging to the tertial feathers. The breast and flanks have a variable amount of streaky dark grey-brown. The pale submoustachial stripe and dark malar stripe outline the white throat and half-collar. The centre of the lower breast and belly is white while the undertail-coverts are white with dark centres to the feathers. The bill is short and dark and the feet are black. The eye is large and has a whitish ring around it.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
When to see the Dark-sided Flycatcher
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 8 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Dark-sided Flycatcher
The map shades 23 countries with regular records, and 6 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 United States, Norway, Australia, Netherlands, North Korea, Iceland.
About the Dark-sided Flycatcher
The dark-sided flycatcher is a small passerine bird belonging to the genus Muscicapa in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. It has a wide breeding distribution in the East Palearctic with northern birds migrating south for the winter. It is also known as the Siberian flycatcher or sooty flycatcher, the latter name is also used for the sooty flycatcher of Africa.
Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Easily confused with
Brown-breasted FlycatcherMuscicapa muttuiThe brown-breasted flycatcher is 13–14 cm in length and weighs between 10 and 14 g.
Grey-streaked FlycatcherMuscicapa griseistictaBradshaw, C.; Jepson, P. J.; Lindsey, N. J. (1991).
Ferruginous FlycatcherMuscicapa ferrugineaThe ferruginous flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae.
Side by side: Dark-sided Flycatcher vs Spotted Flycatcher · Asian Brown Flycatcher vs Dark-sided Flycatcher · African Dusky Flycatcher vs Dark-sided Flycatcher · Brown-breasted Flycatcher vs Dark-sided Flycatcher · Dark-sided Flycatcher vs Grey-streaked Flycatcher
Learn the Dark-sided Flycatcher in the BeakBrain App
Photo and call practice. Coming soon to iPhone and Android.
Play today's Daily BirdEvery photo and recording on this page is credited to its author under the licence shown. Spotted a problem with this page, or have a better photo? Contribute.