Taiga Flycatcher
Ficedula albicilla (Pallas, 1811)
Muscicapidae — Chats, Old World Flycatchers
Taiga Flycatcher, Ficedula albicilla, is a passerine of the Muscicapidae family that breeds across the Palearctic from western Russia to eastern Russia, with its range extending south to northern Mongolia and north-eastern China. It spends the non-breeding season in south-east Asia through Borneo. First described by Pallas in 1811, it is a migratory bird of taiga forest. The female shows brown upperparts, a blackish tail edged with white, and buff breast with mostly white underparts. In the male, the ear coverts and sides of the neck are blue-grey, and breeding birds have orange-red throats.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Muscicapidae — Chats, Old World Flycatchers
- Breeding range
- Palearctic: w Russia to e Russia and s to n Mongolia and ne China
- Nonbreeding range
- se Asia through Borneo
