Yellow-rumped flycatcher

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In all plumages the yellow rump is distinctive. The white supercilium of the male is distinctive, separating it from the narcissus flycatcher and the Chinese flycatcher. Females and first year males are olive grey above with blackish tail.{{cite book|author1=Rasmussen, PC |author2=JC Anderton |name-list-style=amp |year=2005|title= Birds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide.|volume= 2|publisher=Smithsonian Institution and Lynx Edicions. |page=375}}

Hartert (1910) treated this species as a member of the narcissina group.{{cite book|author=Hartert, E.|year= 1910|title= Die Vögel der paläarktischen Fauna.|publisher=Friedlander und Sohn, Berlin |volume=1|pages=490|url=https://archive.org/stream/dievgelderpal01hart#page/490/mode/1up}}{{cite journal|author=Dekker, R.W.R.J.|author2=E.C. Dickinson|author3=Hiroyuki Morioka|name-list-style=amp |year=2001|title= Systematic notes on Asian birds. 18. Some nomenclatural issues relating to Japanese taxa described in the Planches Coloriées (1820-1839) and Fauna Japonica, Aves (1844-1850).|journal= Zool. Verh. Leiden|volume= 335|pages=99–214|url=http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/46457|format=PDF}} Some individuals with yellow supercilium have been considered as hybrids with the narcissus flycatcher.{{cite book|author=McCarthy, Eugene M |year=2006 |title= Handbook of Avian Hybrids of the World.|publisher= Oxford University Press US.|isbn=0-19-518323-1|page=242}} Included in this species complex was the species called Elise's flycatcher, usually treated as a subspecies of the narcissus flycatcher. Both elisae and zanthopygia have been observed to breed separately in the same area of oak forest near Peking strengthening the case for their distinctness.{{cite journal|author=Weigold, H.|author-link=Hugo Weigold|year=1922|title= Muscicapa elisae n. sp.|journal= Falco|volume= 18|issue=1|pages=1–2}} There are also clear call and morphological differences between the two.{{cite journal|author=Zhang, Y.-Y.|author2=N. Wang|author3= J. Zhang|author4=G.-M. Zheng|name-list-style=amp|year=2006|title=Acoustic difference of narcissus flycatcher complex.|journal= Acta Zool. Sinica |volume=52|issue=4|pages=648–654|url=http://www.actazool.org/paperdetail.asp?bgpage=648&endpage=654&id=4909&month=8&number=4&volume=52&year=2006 }}{{cite journal|author=Töpfer, T.|title=Systematic notes on Asian birds. 60. Remarks on the systematic position of Ficedula elisae (Weigold, 1922)|journal= Zool. Med. Leiden|volume=80-5 |issue=12|year=2006|pages=203–212|url=http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/41836}}

The genus Muscicapa has been considered polyphyletic and is still in the process of being resolved,{{cite journal|author1=Lei Xin |author2=Lian Zhen-Min |author3=Lei Fu-Min |author4=Yin Zuo-Hua |author5=Zhao Hong-Feng |title=Phylogeny of some Muscicapinae birds based on cyt b mitochondrial gene sequences|year=2007|journal=Acta Zoologica Sinica|volume=53|issue=1|page=95|url=http://www.actazool.org/temp/%7BAB343D2C-CFC7-4C84-A9F8-4D3FC951F969%7D.pdf }} although the genus Ficedula is now considered monophyletic{{cite journal|vauthors=Outlaw DC, Voelker G |year=2006|title= Systematics of Ficedula flycatchers (Muscicapidae): a molecular reassessment of a taxonomic enigma.|journal= Mol Phylogenet Evol |volume=41|issue=1|pages=118–26|url=http://www.umsl.edu/~outlawdc/PDFs/FicedulaSystematics.pdf |doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2006.05.004|pmid=16797192}} with their origins in east Asia and diversification following climate changes in the Pliocene.{{cite journal|vauthors=Outlaw DC,Voelker G|year=2008|title= Pliocene climatic change in insular Southeast Asia as an engine of diversification in Ficedula flycatchers.|journal= Journal of Biogeography |volume=35|issue=4|page= 739|doi=10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01821.x|bibcode=2008JBiog..35..739O |s2cid=44229873 }}

Males have black upperparts with a white supercilium and wingpatch, rich yellow underparts and rump. Females are greyish or olive-green above, paler below, with wingbar and yellow rump. They may show yellow on the throat.Woo-Shin Lee, Tae-Hoe Koo, Jin-Young Park (2005). A field guide to the birds of Korea. p. 248. {{ISBN|978-8995141533}}.

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The breeding area of the species is in Manchuria, Korea and China. The nesting in Xiaoxingan region is mainly in May and June. They breed mainly in low valleys at the base of hills. The home range of a pair can be about 2000-5000 sq. m. The nest is built in about three to four days by the female alone. The clutch is 4-7 eggs which are incubated by the female alone for about 11–12 days. The adults forage within about {{convert|70|m|ft}} of the nest to feed the chicks. The young fledge after 14–15 days.{{cite journal| title=Studies on the Breeding Behaviour of the Tricolar Flycatcher|author1=Liu, Y |author2=Wang, J | journal=Acta Zool. Sin.|volume=27| issue=3| pages=287–291|year=1981}}{{cite journal| journal=Frontiers of Biology in China| volume=2| issue=3| year=2007| pages=345–350| doi=10.1007/s11515-007-0051-1| title=Home ranges and habitat vegetation characters in breeding season of Narcissus Flycatcher and Yellow-rumped Flycatcher|author1=Wang, N |author2=Yanyun Zhang |author3=Guangmei Zheng | s2cid=36869931|name-list-style=amp }} It was first noted to winter in central India in 1989, it has since been found to winter in southwestern India and Sri Lanka.{{cite journal|author=Haribal, Meena|year=1992|title= Yellow-rumped Flycatcher M. zanthopygia: a new addition to the avifauna of the Indian subcontinent. |journal=J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc.|volume= 88|issue=3|pages=456–458|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48673892}}{{cite journal|author=Holt, Paul I. |year=2003|title= Yellow-rumped flycatcher Ficedula zanthopygia in Kerala.|journal= J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc.|volume= 100|issue=1|page=145|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48602719}}

A species of ectoparasitic feather mite, Proterothrix megacaula was first discovered and described from the body of a yellow-rumped flycatcher in China.{{cite journal|author=Mironov, S. V.|author2=W. Diao |author3= Y. Zhang|author4=C. Zhang|author5= Zh. Yan |name-list-style=amp |year=2008 |title= A new feather mite species of the genus Proterothrix Gaud (Astigmatea, Proctophyllodidae) from Ficedula zanthopygia (Hay) (Passeriformes: Muscicapidae) in China. |journal=Acarina |volume=16|issue=1|pages=31–38}}

{{Reflist}}

• [http://ibc.lynxeds.com/species/yellow-rumped-flycatcher-ficedula-zanthopygia?only=videos Internet Bird Collection]
• [http://www.skullsite.com/completelist/speciesinfo.cfm?spec=244 Skull]

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yellow-rumped flycatcher

Category:Birds of Manchuria

Category:Birds of Korea

Category:Birds of China

Category:Wintering birds of Southeast Asia

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