Snowy-browed flycatcher

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| image = Snowy-browed Flycatcher 0A2A2564.jpg

| image_caption = Male

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2017 |title=Ficedula hyperythra |volume=2017 |page=e.T103769540A111167043 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-1.RLTS.T103769540A111167043.en |access-date=11 November 2021}}

| genus = Ficedula

| species = hyperythra

| authority = (Blyth, 1843)

}}

The snowy-browed flycatcher (Ficedula hyperythra) is a species of bird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.{{Cite web |title=Snowy-browed Flycatcher bird photo call and song/ Ficedula hyperythra (M [uscicapa]. hyperythra) |url=https://dibird.com/species/snowybrowed-flycatcher/ |access-date=2022-05-20 |website=dibird.com |language=en}}

It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.{{Cite web |title=Snowy-browed Flycatcher (Ficedula hyperythra) - BirdLife species factsheet |url=http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/snowy-browed-flycatcher-ficedula-hyperythra/details |access-date=2022-05-20 |website=datazone.birdlife.org}} Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.

Fourteen subspecies are recognised:{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela C. Rasmussen | date=December 2023 | title=Chats, Old World flycatchers | work=IOC World Bird List Version 14.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/chats/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=24 June 2024}}

• F. h. hyperythra (Blyth, 1843) – central Himalayas to central south China, north, central Indochina, north Thailand and Myanmar
• F. h. annamensis (Robinson & Kloss, 1919) – central south Vietnam
• F. h. innexa (Swinhoe, 1866) – Taiwan
• F. h. sumatrana (Hachisuka, 1926) – montane Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and north Borneo
• F. h. mjobergi (Hartert, EJO, 1925) – montane northwest Borneo
• F. h. vulcani (Robinson, 1918) – montane Java, Bali and Lombok, Sumbawa and Flores (west, central Lesser Sunda Islands)
• F. h. clarae (Mayr, 1944) – montane Timor and Wetar (east Lesser Sunda Islands)
• F. h. audacis (Hartert, EJO, 1906) – Babar Islands (far east Lesser Sunda Islands)
• F. h. annalisa (Stresemann, 1931) – montane north Sulawesi
• F. h. jugosae (Riley, 1921) – montane central, southeast, south Sulawesi
• F. h. betinabiru Rheindt, Prawiradilaga & Ashari & Suparno, 2020 – Taliabu (Sula Islands, east of Sulawesi)
• F. h. negroides (Stresemann, 1914) – Seram (central east Moluccas)
• F. h. pallidipectus (Hartert, EJO, 1903) – Bacan Islands (south of Halmahera, north Moluccas)
• F. h. alifura (Stresemann, 1912) – Buru (central west Moluccas)
• F. h. daggayana (Meyer de Schauensee & duPont, 1962) – Daggayan and Civoleg, Gingoog City