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What the Spotted Flycatcher sounds like
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The spotted flycatcher is a small slim bird, around 14.5 cm (5.7 in) in length, with a weight of 14–20 g (0.49–0.71 oz). It has dull grey-brown upperparts and off-white underparts. The crown, throat and breast are streaked with brown while the wings and tail feathers are edged with paler thin margins. The subspecies M. s. tyrrhenica has paler and warmer plumage on the upperparts, with more diffuse markings on the head and breast. The sexes are alike. Juveniles have ochre-buff spots above and scaly brown spots below.
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When to see the Spotted Flycatcher
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 5 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Spotted Flycatcher
The map shades 128 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 Seychelles, United States, Mayotte.
About the Spotted Flycatcher
The spotted flycatcher is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family. It breeds in most of Europe and in the Palearctic to Siberia, and is migratory, wintering in Africa and south western Asia. It is declining in parts of its range.
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Easily confused with
Asian Brown FlycatcherMuscicapa dauuricaThis species is 13 cm (5.1 in) long, including the cocked tail.
African Dusky FlycatcherMuscicapa adustaThe African dusky flycatcher is 13 cm (5.1 in) long and weighs around 11 g (0.39 oz).
Dark-sided FlycatcherMuscicapa sibiricaThe dark-sided flycatcher is 13 to 14 cm (5.1 to 5.5 in) in overall length.
Side by side: Asian Brown Flycatcher vs Spotted Flycatcher · African Dusky Flycatcher vs Spotted Flycatcher · Dark-sided Flycatcher vs Spotted Flycatcher
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