(including Lanyu island) and the far north Philippines. It is a non-breeding visitor to mainland China, the Russian Far East, Hong Kong, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, and Sumatra, Indonesia. In Jeju-do of South Korea, Gotjawal Forest, a forest formed on a rocky area of volcanic AA Lava, is one of the important breeding sites of Japanese paradise flycatcher A recent survey detected a steep decline in part of the Japanese breeding population which has presumably occurred because of forest loss and degradation in its winter range. Notes References Brazil, Mark. The Birds of East Asia: China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Russia. A & C Black Publishers Ltd., 2009 Sibagu: Bird Names in Oriental Languages (http://www.sibagu.com/japan/monarchidae.html) (accessed 24 November 2014) Japanese paradise flycatcher Birds of Japan Birds of Korea Birds of the Ryukyu Islands Japanese paradise flycatcher Japanese paradise flycatcher