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Asian Brown Flycatcher

Muscicapa dauurica · Family Muscicapidae

Muscicapa dauurica

Family Muscicapidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Muscicapidae
GBIF occurrence records
168,400
Countries and territories with records
43
Asian Brown Flycatcher
Lip Kee Yap · Asian Brown Flycatcher - Muscicapa dauurica.jpg · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Lip Kee Yap · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 168,400 occurrence records from 43 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (31%), Thailand (17.7%), Singapore (8.2%), Taiwan (8%) and Malaysia (6%); together they account for 71% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.085% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Muscicapa dauurica combines the genus name Muscicapa with the species epithet dauurica. The Warbla app catalog lists 14 species of the genus Muscicapa; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Muscicapa striata, Muscicapa adusta and Muscicapa sibirica.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 316 species of the family Muscicapidae. This species ranks 26th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Erithacus rubecula. Its record count is 1.4 times the family average (117,032). The family Muscicapidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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