Old World Flycatchers in India
Our list for India has 9 old world flycatchers recorded regularly there: 4 residents, 2 summer visitors, 1 winter visitor and 2 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in India in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 9, most common first
Indian RobinCopsychus fulicatusResidentCommon15–17 cmRecorded all year
Black RedstartPhoenicurus ochrurosResidentUncommon13–15 cmRecorded all year
BluethroatLuscinia svecicaWinter visitorUncommon13–14 cmRecorded all year
Spotted FlycatcherMuscicapa striataPassage migrantUncommon14–16 cmRegularly Sep–Oct
Plumbeous Water-redstartPhoenicurus fuliginosusResidentUncommon12–15 cmRecorded all year
Blue Rock-thrushMonticola solitariusResidentUncommon21–23 cmRecorded all year
White-tailed RobinMyiomela leucuraSummer visitorRare16–18 cmRegularly Oct–Jul
Rufous-tailed Rock-thrushMonticola saxatilisPassage migrantRare16–19 cmRegularly Aug–Nov
WheatearOenanthe oenantheSummer visitorRare15–16 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Smallest to largest
Length, cmData: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made