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The mugimaki flycatcher is 13 to 13.5 centimetres long. It has a rattling call and often flicks its wings and tail. The adult male has blackish upperparts with a short white supercilium behind the eye, a white wing-patch, white edges to the tertials and white at the base of the outer tail-feathers. The breast and throat are orange-red while the belly and undertail-coverts are white. The female is grey-brown above with a pale orange-brown breast and throat.
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When to see the Mugimaki 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 Mugimaki Flycatcher
The map shades 16 countries with regular records, and 3 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, United Kingdom, North Korea.
About the Mugimaki Flycatcher
The mugimaki flycatcher is a small passerine bird of eastern Asia belonging to the genus Ficedula in the Old World flycatcher family, Muscicapidae. The name "mugimaki" comes from Japanese and means "wheat-sower". The bird is also known as the robin flycatcher.
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Easily confused with
Slaty-blue FlycatcherFicedula tricolorThe slaty-blue flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae.
Yellow-rumped FlycatcherFicedula zanthopygiaIn all plumages the yellow rump is distinctive.
Rusty-tailed FlycatcherFicedula ruficaudaThe rusty-tailed flycatcher is a small passerine bird in the flycatcher family Muscicapidae.
Side by side: Mugimaki Flycatcher vs Yellow-rumped Flycatcher
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