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What the Yellow-rumped Flycatcher sounds like

ID tip
In all plumages the yellow rump is distinctive. The white supercilium of the male is distinctive, separating it from the narcissus flycatcher and the green-backed flycatcher. Females and first year males are olive grey above with blackish tail. Hartert (1910) treated this species as a member of the narcissina group. Some individuals with yellow supercilium have been considered as hybrids with the narcissus flycatcher. Included in this species complex was the species called Elise's flycatcher, usually treated as a subspecies of the narcissus flycatcher.
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When to see the Yellow-rumped Flycatcher
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 8 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Yellow-rumped Flycatcher
The map shades 17 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 Sri Lanka.
About the Yellow-rumped Flycatcher
The yellow-rumped flycatcher, also known as Korean flycatcher or tricolor flycatcher, is a species of flycatcher found in eastern Asia. A distinctive species with almost no look-alike other than the narcissus flycatcher. It breeds in eastern Asia including parts of Mongolia, Transbaikal, southern China, Korea and western Japan. They winter in parts of the Malay Peninsula and South Asia.
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Easily confused with
Slaty-blue FlycatcherFicedula tricolorThe slaty-blue flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae.
Narcissus FlycatcherFicedula narcissinaThe narcissus flycatcher is a passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family.
Side by side: Mugimaki Flycatcher vs Yellow-rumped Flycatcher
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