Grey-streaked Flycatcher

Muscicapa griseisticta

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesShrublandCup nestSmall · 16 g

ID tip

Bradshaw, C.; Jepson, P. J.; Lindsey, N. J. (1991). "Identification of brown flycatchers". British Birds. 84 (12): 527–542. Alström, Per; Hirschfeld, Erik (1991). "Field identification of Brown, Siberian and Grey-streaked Flycatchers". Birding World. 4 (8): 271–278.

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When to see the Grey-streaked Flycatcher

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Grey-streaked Flycatcher

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 15 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 United States, Australia, Mongolia, India.

About the Grey-streaked Flycatcher

The grey-streaked flycatcher or grey-spotted flycatcher is a small passerine bird breeding in the eastern Palearctic belonging to the genus Muscicapa in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. The species was first described by Robert Swinhoe in 1861.

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Easily confused with

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