Ficedula mugimaki
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
The mugimaki flycatcher (Ficedula mugimaki) is a small passerine bird of eastern Asia belonging to the genus Ficedula in the Old World flycatcher family, Muscicapidae. The name "mugimaki" comes from Japanese and means "wheat-sower". The bird is also known as the robin flycatcher.
The mugimaki flycatcher is 13 to 13.5 centimetres long. It has a rattling call and often flicks its wings and tail. The adult male has blackish upperparts with a short white supercilium behind the eye, a white wing-patch, white edges to the tertials and white at the base of the outer tail-feathers. The breast and throat are orange-red while the belly and undertail-coverts are white. The female is grey-brown above with a pale orange-brown breast and throat. She lacks white in the tail, has one or two pale wingbars rather than a white wing-patch and has a supercilium that is either faint or absent entirely. Young males are similar to the female but have a brighter orange breast, white in the tail and a more obvious supercilium.
It breeds in eastern Siberia and north-east China. Migrating birds pass through eastern China, Korea and Japan in spring and autumn. The... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kinabalu Park | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 2 | Kerinci Seblat National Park | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 3 | Khao Yai National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 4 | Cuc Phuong National Park | 🇻🇳 Vietnam | |
| 5 | Khao Sok National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 6 | Khao Luang National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 7 | Taroko National Park | 🇹🇼 Taiwan | |
| 8 | Taman Negara National Park | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 9 | Kaeng Krachan National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Mugimaki Flycatcher sighting in Kinabalu Park on a given day, based on 226 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 70th most-seen of the 247 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
December to March
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Mugimaki Flycatcher in Kinabalu Park on a given day, against under 5% in May to October, the lowest months.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Mugimaki 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.
Yes
Of the 9 parks where we can rate Mugimaki Flycatcher sightings, Kinabalu Park has the highest daily chance: about 10%. Next come Kerinci Seblat National Park (Indonesia, under 5%) and Khao Yai National Park (Thailand, under 5%).
Same genus: Ficedula
The closest relatives of the Mugimaki Flycatcher that you can see in Kinabalu Park (genus Ficedula, Ficedula Flycatchers) are Little Pied Flycatcher (about 40%), Snowy-browed Flycatcher (about 30%) and Pygmy Blue-Flycatcher (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Mugimaki Flycatcher is recorded against all the birds logged in Kinabalu Park (226 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.
