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Brown-breasted Flycatcher

Muscicapa muttui

Least ConcernNear ThreatenedVulnerableEndangeredCritically Endangered
Insufficient data
overall probability at Cuc Phuong National Park
4 Verified records at Cuc Phuong National Park
🌅 Crepuscular When it's active at dawn and dusk

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. Wikipedia →

Closest Relatives at Cuc Phuong National Park

Asian Brown Flycatcher

Asian Brown Flycatcher

🌅 Crepuscular Bird

Muscicapa latirostris

5–10% · With luck
Dark-sided Flycatcher
LC

Dark-sided Flycatcher

🌅 Crepuscular Bird

Muscicapa sibirica

Insufficient data
Ferruginous Flycatcher
LC

Ferruginous Flycatcher

☀️ Diurnal Bird

Muscicapa ferruginea

Insufficient data
White-rumped Shama
LC

White-rumped Shama

🌅 Crepuscular Bird

Copsychus malabaricus

40–50% · Possible
Rufous-tailed Robin
LC

Rufous-tailed Robin

🌅 Crepuscular Bird

Larvivora sibilans

30–40% · Possible
Fujian Niltava
LC

Fujian Niltava

🌅 Crepuscular Bird

Niltava davidi

20–30% · Possible
White-tailed Robin
LC Endemic

White-tailed Robin

🌅 Crepuscular Bird

Myiomela leucura

20–30% · Possible
Oriental Magpie-Robin
LC

Oriental Magpie-Robin

🌅 Crepuscular Bird

Copsychus saularis

10–20% · With luck
White-Tailed Blue-Flycatcher
LC

White-Tailed Blue-Flycatcher

🌅 Crepuscular Bird

Cyornis concretus

10–20% · With luck
Hainan Blue-Flycatcher
LC

Hainan Blue-Flycatcher

🌅 Crepuscular Bird

Cyornis hainanus

5–10% · With luck
Amur Stonechat

Amur Stonechat

🌅 Crepuscular Bird

Saxicola stejnegeri

5–10% · With luck
Taiga Flycatcher
LC

Taiga Flycatcher

🌅 Crepuscular Bird

Ficedula albicilla

5–10% · With luck

📅 Monthly Probability

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Fewer than 5 records of Brown-breasted Flycatcher at Cuc Phuong National Park — not enough to chart months honestly.

🌅 When They're Spotted

Most active at dawn and dusk · across all parks (global)

🌅Crepuscular
☀️🌙🌙12am6am12pm6pm12am

Global Distribution

Where this species is recorded worldwide. Restricted to human observations from 2019 onwards — the same kind of record and the same period the probabilities on this page are built from, so collar-tracking studies, camera-trap arrays and museum specimens are excluded. Around Santa Rosa that removes 5,924 GPS fixes from a handful of tagged jaguars.

where this species is recorded (GBIF density — it tracks where observers go, not how likely a sighting is)  ·  parks where it occurs — tap a pin for the sighting probability there

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Probability
1 Sinharaja Forest Reserve 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
40–50%
2 Periyar National Park 🇮🇳 India
10–20%
3 Wilpattu National Park 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
5–10%
4 Mudumalai National Park 🇮🇳 India
<5%
5 Horton Plains National Park 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
<5%
6 Yala National Park 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
<5%
7 Nagarhole National Park 🇮🇳 India
<5%
8 Doi Inthanon National Park 🇹🇭 Thailand
<5%
9 Namdapha National Park 🇮🇳 India
Insufficient data
10 Minneriya National Park 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
Insufficient data
11 Bandipur National Park 🇮🇳 India
Insufficient data
12 Cuc Phuong National Park 🇻🇳 Vietnam
Insufficient data
13 Khao Sok National Park 🇹🇭 Thailand
Insufficient data
14 Kaziranga National Park 🇮🇳 India
Insufficient data
15 Kanha National Park 🇮🇳 India
Insufficient data
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