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Dark-sided Flycatcher (Muscicapa sibirica) video
Bird preening, begging, courtship feeding on winged-insect
- Recorded 23 May 2009
- Added to IBC 3 years 1 week ago
- Charles McHugh
- Location Rokko Mountain Range, Hyogo Prefecture, Honshu, Japan
- Duration 55 sec
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I found a less popular hiking trail where insects were plentiful. Nice to see and record a new bird for me. I guess that this feeding is part of the mating process since this time is too early to have hatched juveniles. This is called 'sooty' flycatcher in Japanese bird books.