Muscicapa muttui
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In 3 days ~10% in a week ~20%
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.
The brown-breasted flycatcher is 13–14 cm in length and weighs between 10 and 14 g. The overall colour of the upper parts is olive brown. Some of the feather shafts are darker. The upper tail coverts are brighter rufous as are the edges of the flight feathers. The tail feathers have rufous on the outer webs. The lores are pale and the eye ring is conspicuous. The chin and throat are white while the breast and sides of the body are pale brown. The middle of the body to the vent is buffy white. Submoustachial stripes are faint but mark the boundary of the pale chin while the legs and lower mandible are pale flesh coloured. The most similar species is the Asian brown flycatcher, which has black rather than pale legs. It was named by Layard after Muttu, his servant who brought him the specimen.
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sinharaja Forest Reserve | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 2 | Periyar National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Wilpattu National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 4 | Minneriya National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 5 | Horton Plains National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 6 | Mudumalai National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 7 | Udawalawe National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 8 | Yala National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 9 | Bandipur National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 10 | Nagarhole National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 11 | Doi Inthanon National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thiruvananthapuram | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Kolkata | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Thrissur | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 4 | Jabalpur | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 5 | Chengdu | 🇨🇳 China | |
| 6 | Bengaluru | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 7 | Chennai | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 8 | Kozhikode | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 9 | Guangzhou | 🇨🇳 China | |
| 10 | Colombo [Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte] | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Brown-breasted Flycatcher sighting in Udawalawe National Park on a given day, based on 14 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 141st most-seen of the 166 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.
Any time of year
In every month with enough records, under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Brown-breasted Flycatcher in Udawalawe National Park on a given day, so our monthly data shows no clear season.
Between 4 and 7 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Brown-breasted Flycatcher sightings with a recorded time, and about 6 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is most active around dawn and dusk.
7th of 11
Of the 11 parks where we can rate Brown-breasted Flycatcher sightings, Udawalawe National Park ranks 7th at under 5%. The best odds are in Sinharaja Forest Reserve (Sri Lanka, about 40%), Periyar National Park (India, about 10%) and Wilpattu National Park (Sri Lanka, about 10%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Brown-breasted Flycatcher is recorded against all the birds logged in Udawalawe National Park (14 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.
