A Remarkable Shade Of Luminous Yellow Is Further Enhanced By Dazzling White Eyebrows And Equally Scintillating Speed Stripes!
An eye-catching luminous yellow bird with yolk-yellow underparts and equally bright white eyebrows.
Meet the Yellow-rumped Flycatcher
The yellow-rumped flycatcher (Ficedula zanthopygia) is a highly distinctive bird with the male’s white supercilium separating it from the narcissus flycatcher. His upperparts are black with a contrasting long white wing patch, a white supercilium, and yellow rump and underparts. An orange flush can often be seen on the throat and breast during spring.
The female is not quite as outstanding as the male. More nondescript, she has dull olive upperparts, a pale yellowish-buff belly area with faint brownish mottling on the throat and breast.
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– A face full of finely flecked pear-like spots contrasts beautifully with his vivid orange breast!
Her rump is yellow and she also has patches of white on the wings.
Yellow-rumped flycatchers breed in eastern Asia including parts of Mongolia, Transbaikal, southern China, Korea, and western Japan. They winter in parts of the Malay Peninsula and South Asia.
These birds like to live in and around forests, parks, gardens, wooded areas, and mangroves.
Yellow-rumped flycatchers are omnivorous birds, feeding on a diet consisting of small invertebrates as well as also small fleshy fruits, in particular berries of the Macaranga javanica.
The breeding area of the species is in Manchuria, Korea, and China. The nesting in Xiaoxingan region is mainly from May through to June. Breeding mainly in low valleys at the base of hills the home range of a pair can be about 2000-5000 sq. m. The nest is built in about three to four days solely by the female. A clutch of 4 to 7 eggs is laid within and incubated by her for about 11 to 12 days. The adults forage within about 70 m of the nest to feed the chicks. The young fledge after around 14 to15 days.
This species is considered as of Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.
You can watch and listen to this bird right here in the video below:
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A Vest Of Shinning Copper Topped Off With Splashes Of Vivid Yellow Are Finished Off Perfectly By A Glorious Glossy Coat Of Metallic Blue!
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