Animal India - Taiga Flycatcher - Ficedula Albicilla
The taiga flycatcher or red-throated flycatcher (Ficedula albicilla) is a migratory bird in the family Muscicapidae. The female has brown upperparts with a blackish tail flanked by white. The breast is buffish with underparts mostly white. The male has ear coverts and sides of the neck blue-tinged grey with breeding males having orange-red coloration on the throats. The taiga flycatcher is usually solitary and skulks in a canopy or bushes. It hunts from middle to lower strata, hopping and creeping among foliage. It breeds in northern Eurasia from eastern Russia to Siberia and Mongolia. It is a winter visitor to South and Southeast Asia in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Malaysia, Thailand, China, Vietnam, and Japan. Its natural habitat is taiga forest. It is a rare vagrant in Western Europe. A rare sighting of a taiga flycatcher bird perched on a plant in a field which is not usually seen in this region was seen for the first time at Tehatta, West Bengal, India on 12/11/2023. (Phot
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- ILEA001984401
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- 2023/11/12 00:00:00
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- NurPhoto / Kyodo News Images
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