Gray-streaked Flycatcher Muscicapa griseisticta Scientific name definitions
- LC Least Concern
- Names (29)
- Monotypic
Text last updated October 7, 2017
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Species names in all available languages
Language | Common name |
---|---|
Catalan | papamosques estriat |
Chinese | 灰斑鶲 |
Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China) | 灰紋鶲 |
Chinese (SIM) | 灰纹鹟 |
Croatian | prugastoprsa muharica |
Danish | Gråstribet Fluesnapper |
Dutch | Gestreepte vliegenvanger |
English | Gray-streaked Flycatcher |
English (United States) | Gray-streaked Flycatcher |
French | Gobemouche à taches grises |
French (Canada) | Gobemouche à taches grises |
German | Strichelschnäpper |
Hebrew | חטפית משורטטת |
Icelandic | Rákagrípur |
Indonesian | Sikatan burik |
Japanese | エゾビタキ |
Korean | 제비딱새 |
Mongolian | Сэвхэт намнаахай |
Norwegian | gråstripefluesnapper |
Polish | muchołówka kreskowana |
Russian | Пестрогрудая мухоловка |
Serbian | Prugasta siva muharica |
Slovak | muchár pestroprsý |
Spanish | Papamoscas Estriado |
Spanish (Spain) | Papamoscas estriado |
Swedish | streckig flugsnappare |
Thai | นกจับแมลงอกลายขีด |
Turkish | Boz Çizgili Sinekkapan |
Ukrainian | Мухоловка далекосхідна |
Muscicapa griseisticta (Swinhoe, 1861)
Definitions
- MUSCICAPA
- muscicapa
- griseisticta
The Key to Scientific Names
Legend Overview
Field Identification
12·5–14 cm; 15·1–17·4 g. Small, long-winged grey flycatcher with prominent dark grey streaks on underparts , long primary projection. Crown is grey or brownish-grey (feathers with slightly darker grey centres), narrow white line above base of bill and on upper lores to eye, narrow whitish eyering; face and upperparts , including upperwing-coverts and tail, grey or brownish-grey, tips of greater coverts narrowly white, flight-feathers black, edges of tertials whitish, edges of secondaries brownish; fairly long prominent whitish submoustachial streak, strong dark malar stripe; throat and underparts white, large dark grey streaks from breast to belly and flanks; iris dark; bill and legs blackish. Distinguished from other grey flycatchers by combination of white loral line, heavy dark streaks below, very long wings. Sexes alike. Juvenile is similar to adult, but duller brown above, with whitish-buff streaks on head and larger spots on upperparts, broad whitish tips on median and greater upperwing-coverts, whitish underparts with greyish spots or streaks forming smudged area on breast and flanks; first-winter retains pale tips of greater coverts (forming narrow but distinct wingbar).
Systematics History
Subspecies
Distribution
NE China (N Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang and Jilin), N Korea, SE Russia (Amurland, Ussuriland, C & S Kamchatka), Sakhalin and Kuril Is; non-breeding Taiwan, Philippines, N Borneo, Sulawesi, E Lesser Sundas (Wetar, Leti), Moluccas and W New Guinea.
Habitat
Movement
Migratory. Departs from breeding area in Aug to mid-Oct, passage in C Japan Aug to mid-Oct, through Korea to end Sept and through SE China (Fujian and Hong Kong) late Sept to Nov; arrives in wintering area in Taiwan from early Oct and present to May, in Philippines end Sept and present to May or early Jun; present in Sulawesi and Moluccas end Aug to Apr, in New Guinea Oct to late Apr. Return passage from end Mar in SE China (Guangdong), mid-Apr and May in Hong Kong, May in N China and Korea, and May–Jun in Japan; arrival on breeding grounds in Russian Far East late May and early Jun. Vagrant in Singapore and C & S Vietnam (N & C Annam, Cochinchina).
Diet and Foraging
Diet not well known, includes small invertebrates; recorded also as hovering to take berries. Usually solitary, occasionally in pairs; confiding. Forages in the open from tops of trees at forest edges or clearings, often near streams; perches upright. Often makes rapid dashes of up to 20 m to catch insect, frequently returning to same perch; briefly cocks or flicks tail several times on landing.
Sounds and Vocal Behavior
Breeding
Conservation Status
- Year-round
- Migration
- Breeding
- Non-Breeding