Spotted Forktail

When to see the Spotted Forktail

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

Where to see the Spotted Forktail

The map shades 7 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Spotted Forktail

The spotted forktail is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is found in the Himalayas and the hills of Northeast India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and southern China including Yunnan. Birds of this species are 25 cm with a long tail. The sexes are alike, having a white forehead and a black crown and nape, a black back spotted white, and a broad white wing bar. The tail is deeply forked, graduated black and white. The white spotted back easily identifies this species from other similar sized forktail. Its call is a shrill, screechy KREE, mostly given in flight; it also makes some shrill, squeaky notes while perched.

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Easily confused with

Slaty-backed ForktailEnicurus schistaceusThe slaty-backed forktail is a slim, medium-sized forktail between 22 and 25 centimetres (8+5⁄8 and 9+7⁄8 in) long, and weighs between 26 and 38 grams (0.92 and 1.34 oz). Little ForktailEnicurus scouleriThe sexes are alike, with black and white plumage. White-crowned ForktailEnicurus leschenaultiThe white-crowned forktail is the largest of the forktails.