Spotted Flycatcher

Muscicapa striata

Least Concern

The Spotted Flycatcher is an Old World flycatcher of European and western Asian breeding areas with African or South Asian wintering regions. It watches from a perch, sallies after flying insects, or gleans prey from leaves and trunks, using woodland, forest edge, scrub, plantations, streamsides, or island forests depending on the species.

Family

Muscicapidae

Group

Old World Flycatchers

Range

Spotted Flycatcher Range — Resident or seasonal range in European and western Asian breeding areas with African or South Asian wintering regions

Population

≈ 2M–20M

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