Taigaschnäpper

Bestimmung

The taiga flycatcher or red-throated flycatcher (Ficedula albicilla) is a migratory bird in the family Muscicapidae. The species was first described by Peter Simon Pallas in 1811. The female has brown upper parts 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. Unlike the taiga flycatcher, the female of the similar red-breasted flycatcher has a brown tail while the red colour in breeding males extends to the breast in the red-breasted flycatcher. It breeds in northern Eurasia from eastern Russia to Siberia and Mongolia. It is a winter visitor to South and South-east 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 to western Europe. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the red-breasted flycatcher. The genus name is from Latin and refers to a small fig-eating bird (ficus, fig) supposed to change into the blackcap in winter. The specific name albicilla is from Latin albus, white, and Neo-Latin cilla tail; this meaning of cilla arose from a misunderstanding of motacilla, the name for the wagtail.

Taxonomie

Gattung: Ficedula; Familie: Muscicapidae; Ordnung: Passeriformes.

Wissenschaftlicher Name

Ficedula albicilla

Autorität

(Pallas, 1811)

Ordnung

Passeriformes

Familie

Fliegenschnäpper (Muscicapidae)

Gattung

Ficedula

Verbreitung und Lebensraum

Breeding range: PAL : w Russia to e Russia and s to n Mongolia and ne China. Non-breeding range: se Asia through Borneo.

Brutgebiet

PAL : w Russia to e Russia and s to n Mongolia and ne China

Überwinterungsgebiet

se Asia through Borneo

Zugverhalten

Vollzieher

Verhalten

Zugverhalten: Vollzieher.

Schutzstatus

Bestandstrend: stabil.

Bestandstrend

stabil