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Asian Brown Flycatcher

Flycatchers, Fantails & Shamas

Muscicapa dauurica

Basic stats

Diet

Flying insects

Habitat

Forest edge, gardens, open woodland

Range

Widespread across Asia; winters in Southeast Asia

Clutch size

4–5 eggs (on breeding grounds)

Incubation period

About 12–14 days (typical for Muscicapa)

Size

Small (13cm)

Wingspan

~21–23cm

Weight

~9–14g

A plain, greyish-brown migratory flycatcher with a pale eye-ring and streaked breast, one of the more familiar non-breeding visitors to Borneo from further north in Asia.

Hunts flying insects from an exposed perch in an upright stance, sallying out and returning to the same spot, and can turn up in forest edge, gardens and open woodland during the northern winter.

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