Birds of Singapore
by the Bird Society of Singapore
Ficedula zanthopygia
Family: Chats, Old World Flycatchers, and Allies · Status: Common migrant · Size: 13–13.5 cm · Conservation: Least Concern
Breeds from Siberia and Korea to central and northeastern China; winters mainly in the Thai-Malay Peninsula and Sumatra.
Male has black upperparts with a long white wing patch, broad white supercilium, and yellow rump and underparts; in spring, birds often show an orange flush on throat and breast. Female is more nondescript with dull greyish-olive upperparts, pale buffish underparts with faint scales on throat and breast, yellow rump, two white wing bars, and a white outer edge to the longest tertial. First winter male is similar to female but has black uppertail-coverts. Females and subadults are difficult to separate from Narcissus Flycatcher and Green-backed Flycatcher, which both lack the yellow rump and usually have less prominent scaling on breast; of these two species, only subadult Narcissus may show a pale edge to the longest tertial, but usually this pale edging is equally pronounced on all three tertials – in Yellow-rumped, the pale edging is particularly broad on the longest tertial, though the other two tertials may have narrow white outer edges. Differs from Mugimaki Flycatcher in lacking the two-toned orange/buff underparts.
Forest, parks, gardens, wooded areas and mangroves.