Brown-streaked Flycatcher
Muscicapa williamsoni
Small, earthen-toned forest flycatcher. Closely related to Asian Brown (under which it is sometimes regarded as a subspecies) but much browner overall, with more extensive brown on the underparts. Streaking can be either relatively well-defined or smudgy; it is never as clear-cut and solid-looking as on Gray-streaked Flycatcher, and it is never as dark and extensive as in Dark-sided Flycatcher. Behavior like that many other similar flycatchers: sallies from an exposed perch to take prey, often in a clearing or edge area.
Taxonomy
- Scientific name
- Muscicapa williamsoni
- Authority
- Deignan, 1957
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Muscicapidae
- Genus
- Muscicapa
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Distribution
Bird Calls
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