Adult (Brown-streaked) © James Eaton eBird S65142167 Macaulay Library ML 205770571
Juvenile (Brown-streaked) © Adrian Silas Tay
Adult (Brown-streaked) © Neoh Hor Kee
Adult (Brown-streaked) © Harn Sheng Khor
Juvenile (Brown-streaked) © Ramesh T

Brown-streaked Flycatcher Muscicapa williamsoni

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Identification

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Small, earthen-toned forest flycatcher. Closely related to Asian Brown (under which it is sometimes regarded as a subspecies) but much browner overall, with more extensive brown on the underparts. Streaking can be either relatively well-defined or smudgy; it is never as clear-cut and solid-looking as on Gray-streaked Flycatcher, and it is never as dark and extensive as in Dark-sided Flycatcher. Behavior like that many other similar flycatchers: sallies from an exposed perch to take prey, often in a clearing or edge area.

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