25 March 2012

Green-backed Flycatcher (Ficedula elisae)


Bird:  Green-backed Flycatcher (Ficedula elisae). 
Loc:  Selangor Malaysia.
Date: March 2012.
40000 ++ hits & counting - since Jan 2011..many thanks..





The Green Backed Flycatcher (Ficedula elisae ) is a passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family.


 It is native to east Asia, from Sakhalin to the north, through Japan across through Korea,mainland China, and Taiwan, wintering in southeast Asia, including the Philippines and Borneo


It is highly migratory, and has been found as a vagrant from Australia in the south to Alaska in the north .






This species primarily feeds on insects, and lives in deciduous woodlands. Breeding males sing in repeated melodious whistles.


  Green-backed Flycatcher (Ficedula elisae) wt RN Buhaimi & Jai @ Selangor Msia March 12..many thanks.... 

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