Rusty-tailed Flycatcher

When to see the Rusty-tailed Flycatcher

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

Where to see the Rusty-tailed Flycatcher

The map shades 5 countries with regular records, and 1 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 Bangladesh.

About the Rusty-tailed Flycatcher

The rusty-tailed flycatcher is a small passerine bird in the flycatcher family Muscicapidae. It is found mainly in the northern regions of the Indian subcontinent and some parts of southwest India, as well as pockets of Central Asia including Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. The species is partially migratory, with the Central Asian populations migrating to India, as far as the southwest Indian coast along the Arabian Sea, to Karnataka and Kerala.

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Easily confused with

Black-and-orange FlycatcherFicedula nigrorufaA distinctly coloured bird found mainly in the high-elevation areas of the Western Ghats, the Nilgiris, the Palnis and associated hill ranges. Slaty-backed FlycatcherFicedula erithacusThe slaty-backed flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. Semicollared FlycatcherFicedula semitorquataThe semicollared flycatcher is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family, one of the four species of Western Palearctic black-and-white flycatchers.