---
title: "Bambusfliegenschnäpper"
description: "Muscicapa muttui — Vögel. The brown-breasted flycatcher or Layard's flycatcher (Muscicapa muttui) is a small passerine bird in the flycatcher family Muscicapidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/de/animal/brown-breasted-flycatcher
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Bambusfliegenschnäpper

> Muscicapa muttui — Vögel. The brown-breasted flycatcher or Layard's flycatcher (Muscicapa muttui) is a small passerine bird in the flycatcher family Muscicapidae.

- Scientific name: *Muscicapa muttui*
- Category: `birds` (Vögel)
- Habitats: `forest` (Wald)
- iNaturalist observations: 1165
- Wikidata: [Q1306172](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1306172)
- iNaturalist taxon: [12976](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/12976)

## Names

- en: Brown-breasted Flycatcher
- de: Bambusfliegenschnäpper
- fr: Gobemouche muttui
- pl: Muchołówka białogardła

## Countries with the most observations

IN (464), LK (278), CN (86), HK (37), TH (37), TW (11), BD (9), MO (7), SG (6), MY (3)

## Summary

The brown-breasted flycatcher or Layard's flycatcher (Muscicapa muttui) is a small passerine bird in the flycatcher family Muscicapidae. The species breeds in north eastern India, central and Southern China and northern Burma and Thailand, and migrates to southern India and Sri Lanka. It forages for insects below the forest canopy, often close to the forest floor.

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

## Photo

![Bambusfliegenschnäpper](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/brown-breasted-flycatcher/medium.jpg)

Photo: S.MORE · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/36498598

## Machine access

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