English: Spotted Flycatcher
Russian: Серая мухоловка
Mongolian: Бөртөт намнаахай

German: Grauschnapper
French: Gobimouche gris
Japanese: ムナフヒタキ (Munafu-hitaki)

Body length: 13 ½-15 cm.

Breeds in gardens, parks and in forests, often with small glades and openings. Summer visitor, wintering in Africa. Nests in recess on tree trunk or building, often against a wall on branch of climbing shrub.  

Identification: Medium-small, greyish-brown, rather slim passerine, lacking obvious features. Bill dark, fairly long and strong. Tail and wings long, lower body rather slim. Black legs short. Dull grey-brown upperparts and off-white underparts unmarked except for dark streaking of breast, sides of throat, forehead and forecrown (best seen head-on; ground color of forecrown slightly paler grey-brown than rest of upperparts). ‘Peppercorn’ eye dark, with indistinct, narrow palish eye-ring. In fresh plumage, secondaries diffusely edged pale and may form indistinct lighter panel on folded wing, but this still very different from wing patch of ♀ Pied Flycatcher. Sexes alike, ages similar and generally not separable in the field. Sits rather upright, often quite exposed, flicking its tail and watching for flying insects, then makes quick sally to snap prey, alighting on same or new perch. Flight fast and agile. When hunting insects sometimes rises quickly several meters during long, sweeping dives.