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Asian Brown Flycatcher
Muscicapa dauurica
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About the Asian Brown Flycatcher
The Asian brown flycatcher (Muscicapa dauurica) is a small passerine bird in the flycatcher family Muscicapidae. The word Muscicapa comes from the Latin musca, a fly and capere, to catch. The specific dauurica refers to Dauria, an area of south-eastern Siberia named after a local nomadic tribe. This is an insectivorous species which breeds in Japan, eastern Siberia and the Himalayas. It is migratory and winters in tropical southern Asia from southern India and Sri Lanka east to Indonesia. The correct specific epithet for this species is disputed.
Source: Wikipedia
Classification
- Scientific name
- Muscicapa dauurica
- Family
- Old World Flycatchers
- Order
- Passeriformes
Similar species
Other members of the old world flycatchers family recorded in North America — a useful place to start if you are not certain of your identification.
- Amur Stonechat Saxicola stejnegeri
- Blue Rock-Thrush Monticola solitarius
- Bluethroat Luscinia svecica
- Common Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus
- Dark-sided Flycatcher Muscicapa sibirica
- European Robin Erithacus rubecula
- Gray-streaked Flycatcher Muscicapa griseisticta
- Mugimaki Flycatcher Ficedula mugimaki
- Narcissus Flycatcher Ficedula narcissina
- Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe
- Pied Wheatear Oenanthe pleschanka
- Red-flanked Bluetail Tarsiger cyanurus
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