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Flycatcher ID Please

Lin Fa Shan, Tsuen Wan.
January 11, 2009.

Please confirm if it is a Red-throated Flycatcher. The wing bar and the white-dotted edging to wing feathers confused me.

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Yes, Red-throated Flycatcher.

The bill is all black, the wing-bar is white, the upper body is greyish-brown and the lower body is greyish-white.

On a Red-breasted Flycatcher, the lower mandible of the bill would be partly pale flesh-coloured, the wing-bar would be buff (light yellowish-brown), the upper body brown without the greyish tone and the lower body with more buff colour. Also the call note would be different.

We had a number of Red-breasted Flycatchers in Hong Kong in 2007 and 2008, but don't seem to have had so many recently.

Thanks Geoff.

I am very glad to read Geoff's comment on the differences between Red-throated and Red-breasted Flycatcher. It is very informative to me.

Thanks Geoff.