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title: "Asian Brown Flycatcher"
description: "Muscicapa dauurica — Vogels. The Asian brown flycatcher (Muscicapa dauurica) is a small passerine bird in the flycatcher family Muscicapidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/asian-brown-flycatcher
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Asian Brown Flycatcher

> Muscicapa dauurica — Vogels. The Asian brown flycatcher  (Muscicapa dauurica) is a small passerine bird in the flycatcher family Muscicapidae.

- Scientific name: *Muscicapa dauurica*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 9795
- Wikidata: [Q27075642](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27075642)
- iNaturalist taxon: [512431](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/512431)

## Names

- en: Asian Brown Flycatcher
- de: Brauner Fliegenschnäpper
- es: Papamoscas pardo
- fr: Gobemouche brun
- pt: Taralhão-castanho
- pl: Muchołówka brunatna

## Countries with the most observations

TH (1399), SG (1192), IN (934), MY (650), HK (625), CN (620), RU (410), KR (375), VN (273), TW (249), JP (212), KH (148)

## Summary

The Asian brown flycatcher  (Muscicapa dauurica) is a small passerine bird in the flycatcher family Muscicapidae. The word Muscicapa comes from the Latin musca, a fly and capere, to catch. The specific dauurica refers to Dauria, an area of south-eastern Siberia named after a local nomadic tribe.
This is an insectivorous species which breeds in Japan, eastern Siberia and the Himalayas. It is migratory and winters in tropical southern Asia from southern  India and Sri Lanka east to Indonesia.
The correct specific epithet for this species is disputed.

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

## Photo

![Asian Brown Flycatcher](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/asian-brown-flycatcher/medium.jpg)

Photo: Chrissy McClarren and Andy Reago · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/256914492

## Machine access

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