summer male

summer male female European distribution male singing from post

Identification

The Red-breasted Flycatcher is a delightful little bird with a perky manner and prominent eyes highlighted by neat white eye-rings. Adult males are of course easy to identify with their orangey-red bibs, much less extensive than the red breast of a Robin. However, females, juveniles and even some breeding males don't have this feature and have to be identified by their large-headed and long-winged shape, plain wings, characteristic white panels in the tail and, of course, that beady eye.

Habitat

Breeds in mature broad-leaved or mixed woodland.

Migration

These birds winter in Asia, mainly over much of Pakistan and India.

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For the purposes of our bird news services, Red-breasted Flycatcher is classed as Scarce: broadly speaking, species that are covered in British Birds' annual review of scarce species (and forms of similar rarity).

Tsvelodubovo, Leningrad Oblast, Russia (Europe) 28/08/2010	Tsvelodubovo, Leningrad Oblast, Russia (Europe) 28/08/2010	St Marys, Scilly 20/10/2009	Figueira, Portugal 22/11/2009	St Marys, Scilly 21/10/2009
St Agnes, Scilly 15/10/2009	Holy Is., Northumbs 14/10/2009	Holy Is., Northumbs 14/10/2009	Holy Is., Northumbs 14/10/2009	St Agnes, Scilly 02/10/2009

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Red-breasted Flycatcher breeds in the following countries (Bird News Extra subscribers will see population statistics and information on trends for each country):

Albania
Armenia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Bulgaria
Croatia
Czech Republic
Estonia
Finland
Georgia
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Latvia
Lithuania
Moldova
Norway
Poland
Romania
Russia
Serbia and Montenegro
Slovakia
Slovenia
Sweden
Turkey
Ukraine

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