Species profile
Zappey's Flycatcher
Cyanoptila cumatilis
Quick answer
breeds central China (Shaanxi east to Beijing, and south to northwest Hubei); wintering range very poorly known, but recorded south to the Thai-Malay Peninsula
- Scientific name
- Cyanoptila cumatilis
- Family
- Muscicapidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Cyanoptila
- Conservation status
- Near Threatened
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- African Grey Flycatcher (Bradornis microrhynchus)
- African Scrub-Robin (Cercotrichas minor)
- African stonechat (Saxicola torquatus)
- Ala Shan Redstart (Phoenicurus alaschanicus)