Narcissus Flycatcher

About the Narcissus Flycatcher

The narcissus flycatcher (Ficedula narcissina) is a passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family. It is native to the East Palearctic, from Sakhalin to the north, through Japan across through Korea, mainland China, and Taiwan, wintering in southeast Asia, including the Philippines, Vietnam and Borneo. It is highly migratory, and has been found as a vagrant from Australia in the south to Alaska in the north [1] Archived 2006-01-10 at the Wayback Machine. Narcissus flycatcher males are very distinctive in full breeding plumage, having a black crown and mantle, a bright orange throat with paler chest and underparts, an orange-yellow eyebrow, black wings with a white wing patch, an orange-yellow rump, and a black tail. Non-breeding males have varying levels of yellow.

Source: Wikipedia

Classification

Scientific name

Ficedula narcissina

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
• Asian Brown Flycatcher Muscicapa dauurica
• 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
• Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe
• Pied Wheatear Oenanthe pleschanka
• Red-flanked Bluetail Tarsiger cyanurus