Zappey's Flycatcher

Cyanoptila cumatilis

Near Threatened · IUCN Red List

NTNear ThreatenedInvertebratesForestSmall · 23 g

When to see the Zappey's Flycatcher

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

Where to see the Zappey's Flycatcher

Regular range

The map shades 6 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Zappey's Flycatcher

Zappey's flycatcher is a songbird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. It is migratory, breeding in central China from central Sichuan northeast to the mountains west of Beijing, and wintering south to the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Java. It closely similar to, and was formerly considered to be conspecific with, the blue-and-white flycatcher, which breeds further east from northeastern China east to Japan.

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