Abundance: 0.02 to 10.11% (median 1.08%)

Latitudinal range: -30.4° to 63.8°

Habitats: Mediterranean woodland (3), boreal forest/taiga (2), desert/xeric shrubland (6), temperate broadleaf/mixed forest (14), temperate coniferous forest (2), temperate savanna (1), temperate wetland (1), tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (10), tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (10), tropical/subtropical savanna (6), tropical/subtropical wetland (2)

Found in 57 samples

Burkina Faso: Cascades Region (2011)

Cameroon: Nyong River

China: Shunhuang Shan Nature Reserve, Dawei Shan Nature Reserve, Beijing Normal University

Czech Republic: Certak

Egypt: St. Catherine's Monastery (fall), St. Catherine's Monastery (spring), Burullus Ringing Station (Autumn 2005), Ras Shukheir

Ethiopia: Oromia Region (coffee captures), Oromia Region (forest captures)

France: Piémanson Beach

Germany: Mooswald

Ghana: Samole (wet season)

Greece: Antikythira Island (spring 1998)

India: Wangasara (Forest A), Wangasara (Forest B), Wangasara (Coffee plantation)

Ivory Coast: Bossematié Forest (selective cleaning), Bossematié Forest (control)

Japan: Tateyama Range, Otayama Bird-Observatory (1975), Otayama Bird-Observatory (1977), West Coast Park

Jordan: Azraq Wetland Reserve

Kazakhstan: Dzanybek Research Station

Kenya: Ngulia Safari Lodge, Nyeri County

Malaysia: Paya Indah Wetland Reserve, Berkelah Hill Dipterocarp Rainforest Reserve Maran (recently logged forest)

Nigeria: Shasha Forest Reserve (36 mm mesh), Jos Wildlife Park

Romania: Grindul Lupilor

Russia: Biological Station Rybachy, Bistraya River

Slovakia: Ruské

South Africa: Umdoni Park, Tonqani

Spain: Cazorla (fruitless season), El Viso

Sweden: Umea, Boda (1994), Rickebasta (1996), Rickebasta (1997), Egeside sjö

Switzerland: Portalban (Wald)

Thailand: Wat Phai Lom (1969), Wat Phai Lom (1970)

Turkey: Dicle Ringing Station (spring 2004)

Uganda: Makerere University Biological Field Station (unlogged), Makerere University Biological Field Station (logged), Makerere University Biological Field Station Compartment K-15

United Kingdom: Wanstead, Portland Bird Observatory

Zambia: Balmoral, Kabwe

See also Muscicapa adusta, Muscicapa aquatica, Muscicapa banyumas/rubeculoides, Muscicapa caerulescens, Muscicapa comitata, Muscicapa dauurica, Muscicapa epulata, Muscicapa griseisticta, Muscicapa hainana, Muscicapa latirostris, Muscicapa narcissina, Muscicapa parva, Muscicapa sibirica, Muscicapa striata, Muscicapa tickelliae, Muscicapa zanthopygia