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title: "Narcissus Flycatcher"
description: "Ficedula narcissina — Birds. The narcissus flycatcher (Ficedula narcissina) is a passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/narcissus-flycatcher
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Narcissus Flycatcher

> Ficedula narcissina — Birds. The narcissus flycatcher (Ficedula narcissina) is a passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family.

- Scientific name: *Ficedula narcissina*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: `forest` (Forest)
- iNaturalist observations: 3725
- Wikidata: [Q1367236](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1367236)
- iNaturalist taxon: [13128](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/13128)

## Names

- en: Narcissus Flycatcher
- de: Narzissenfliegenschnäpper
- es: Papamoscas Narciso
- fr: Gobemouche narcisse
- pt: Papa-moscas-de-peito-amarelo
- pl: Muchołówka złotobrewa

## Countries with the most observations

JP (559), TW (210), CN (161), RU (156), KR (141), HK (101), TH (82), MO (41), MY (32), SG (20), PH (19), VN (19)

## Summary

The narcissus flycatcher (Ficedula narcissina) is a passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family.  It is native to the East Palearctic, from Sakhalin to the north, through Japan across through Korea, mainland China, and Taiwan, wintering in southeast Asia, including the Philippines,  Vietnam and Borneo.  It is highly migratory, and has been found as a vagrant from Australia in the south to Alaska in the north [1] Archived 2006-01-10 at the Wayback Machine.
Narcissus flycatcher males are very distinctive in full breeding plumage, having a black crown and mantle, a bright orange throat with paler chest and underparts…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_flycatcher

## Photo

![Narcissus Flycatcher](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/narcissus-flycatcher/medium.jpg)

Photo: Stephen Matthews · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/153648928

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/narcissus-flycatcher?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).