Asian Brown Flycatcher
Asian Brown Flycatcher: Small gray-brown flycatcher with white underparts, gray-brown wash on sides, breast. Long gray-brown wings have faint, pale wing bar. Black bill with creamy pink base to lower mandible. Gray face has a white buff eye-ring, lores. Dark gray tail has white undertail coverts.
● Song:
"seeet-seet"
● Foraging & Feeding:
Asian Brown Flycatcher: Feeds mostly on insects. Perches on an open exposed tree branch perch, immobile and erect, until it spots prey; then flies out to catch it in flight and returns to its perch to eat. Sometimes flicks its wings while hunting.
● Breeding & nesting:
Asian Brown Flycatcher: Four to five olive gray eggs are laid in a cup nest made of lichen, moss, and grasses and lined with finer materials. Nest is built by the female and placed on a tree branch or set in fork of a tree. Incubation ranges from 11 to 13 days and is carried out by the female. Young are fed by both sexes. These birds have one brood per year.
● Similar species:
Asian Brown Flycatcher: Very similar to Gray-streaked Flycatcher, which is larger with the smaller completely dark bill, longer wings, darker gray brown upperparts, and heavy brown streaking on underparts. In the field Asian Brown Flycatcher can also be confused with Dark-sided Flycatcher, which has darker breast, smaller bill, longer wings, darker gray-brown wash on breast and sides, and darker gray-brown upperparts.