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title: "Yellow-rumped Flycatcher"
description: "Ficedula zanthopygia — Vogels. The yellow-rumped flycatcher (Ficedula zanthopygia), also known as Korean flycatcher or tricolor flycatcher, is a species of flycatcher found in eastern Asia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/yellow-rumped-flycatcher
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Yellow-rumped Flycatcher

> Ficedula zanthopygia — Vogels. The yellow-rumped flycatcher (Ficedula zanthopygia), also known as Korean flycatcher or tricolor flycatcher, is a species of flycatcher found in eastern Asia.

- Scientific name: *Ficedula zanthopygia*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos)
- iNaturalist observations: 2347
- Wikidata: [Q73574](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q73574)
- iNaturalist taxon: [13124](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/13124)

## Names

- en: Yellow-rumped Flycatcher
- de: Goldfliegenschnäpper
- es: Papamoscas coreano
- fr: Gobemouche à croupion jaune
- pl: Muchołówka żółtorzytna

## Countries with the most observations

TH (612), CN (471), RU (272), SG (260), KR (249), MY (158), HK (52), ID (46), TW (22), MN (9), IN (8), KH (8)

## Summary

The yellow-rumped flycatcher (Ficedula zanthopygia), also known as Korean flycatcher or tricolor flycatcher, is a species of flycatcher found in eastern Asia. A distinctive species with almost no look-alike other than the narcissus flycatcher. It breeds 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.

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

## Photo

![Yellow-rumped Flycatcher](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/yellow-rumped-flycatcher/medium.jpg)

Photo: Лариса Артемьева · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/331315658

## Machine access

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