Asian Brown Flycatcher
Muscicapa dauurica
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 4,738
- Most observed in
- 🇹🇭 Thailand
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
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.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Asian brown flycatcher”.