Another flycatcher arrival, without fail every year.
As with any juvenile flycatcher, the Dark-sided Flycatcher (Muscicapa sibirica) tends to extend a little excitement that it could perhaps be another rarer flycatcher until one scrutinises it. The closest that this juvenile resembles would be the juvenile grey-streaked flycatcher and the excitement fizzles out when one looks more closely in particular at the shape of its head, and bill, of which the dark-sided flycatcher has a relatively flatter, smaller head and also tiny bill, and smudgy side streaks.
Refresher (extract mybis):
Order - Passeriformes
Family - Muscicapidae
Genius - Muscicapa
Specific epithet - sibirica (J F Gmelin, 1789)
Common name: Dark-sided Flycatcher, Sambar Sibiria, Sambar Sisi-gelap
Status: Least Concern
13/2024
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