Dark-Sided Flycatcher

The dark-sided flycatcher is a small flycatcher 13–14cm long. The upperparts are plain, dark grey-brown apart from a pale wingbar and pale edging to the tertials, and the breast and flanks have variable streaking. A pale submoustachial stripe and dark malar stripe outline the white throat and half-collar (Wikipedia, general species account).

It breeds widely in the East Palearctic, with northern birds migrating south for the winter; the wintering range includes north-east India, Bangladesh, southern China, Taiwan and South-east Asia. One subspecies breeds in western China and Myanmar. Three or four eggs are laid, incubated by the female, who is fed by the male. The song is a series of thin, high-pitched notes with trills and whistles (Wikipedia, general species account).