Fulvous-chested Jungle Flycatcher

Cyornis olivaceus

Burly brownish flycatcher with a clean white throat, a warm bib, and a faintly hooked dark bill. Overall plainness and structure separate it from female “blue flycatchers” and migrant “brown flycatchers”. Gray-chested Jungle-Flycatcher has more evident gray wash on the head, overall darker upperparts, and lack of warm tones in the tail; its breast band is thicker overall, and is generally more gray-toned (though it can sometimes appear brownish). Rufous-tailed Jungle-Flycatcher is more slender and has a brighter rufous tail than Fulvous-chested; it is found at higher elevations where the two overlap in range. A bird of lowland forests and forest edges, typically in drier habitat. Flycatches from mid-level perches and sings an indescribably beautiful cascading series of high jingling notes.

分类信息

学名
Cyornis olivaceus
命名信息
Hume, 1877
Passeriformes
Muscicapidae
Cyornis

分布与栖息地

迁徙
Resident species

保护状况

种群趋势
declining

照片

分布

鸟叫声

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