Ficedula elisae
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In 3 days ~10% in a week ~20%
The green-backed flycatcher (Ficedula elisae) is a bird in the family Muscicapidae, which contains the Old World flycatchers. It was long considered to be a subspecies of the narcissus flycatcher, but morphological and acoustical differences between the two indicate they are instead separate species. It breeds in northeastern China and winters in southeast Asia.
"F. beijingnica", proposed as a separate species called Beijing flycatcher or Peking flycatcher, is now considered by experts to be the first-summer male of this species and thus no longer a valid taxon. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Khao Luang National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kuala Lumpur | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 2 | Guangzhou | 🇨🇳 China | |
| 3 | Beijing | 🇨🇳 China | |
| 4 | Singapore | 🇸🇬 Singapore | |
| 5 | Bangkok | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Green-backed Flycatcher sighting in Khao Luang National Park on a given day, based on 15 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 182nd most-seen of the 215 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 20%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January and February
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Green-backed Flycatcher in Khao Luang National Park on a given day, against under 5% in March to December, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Green-backed Flycatcher sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Khao Luang National Park, in our data
Khao Luang National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Green-backed Flycatcher sightings: under 5% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Ficedula
The closest relatives of the Green-backed Flycatcher that you can see in Khao Luang National Park (genus Ficedula, Ficedula Flycatchers) are Korean Flycatcher (about 10%) and Taiga Flycatcher (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Green-backed Flycatcher is recorded against all the birds logged in Khao Luang National Park (15 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
