Taiga Flycatcher

How to identify

Field marks

1. Male has an orange-red throat during the breeding season
2. Male has pale blue-gray ear-coverts and sides of the neck
3. Female has rufous upperparts and a black tail with white sides
4. Female has a pale brown breast and mostly white underparts

Male, female and young

Male has pale blue-gray ear-coverts and sides of the neck, with an orange-red throat during the breeding season; female has rufous upperparts and a black tail with white sides.

Similar species

Red-breasted Flycatcher

Female Red-breasted Flycatcher has a rufous tail; the red of the breeding-season male extends onto the breast.

Where and when it's recorded

Busiest months: November–February · Most records: Thailand, India, China

Taiga Flycatcher has been recorded at 1,217 of the 8,276 birding hotspots we track, in 27 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Rabindra SarovarIndia1,891 records
2. Kanha NP – Mukki ZoneIndia1,259 records
3. Kaeng Krachan NPThailand772 records

Countries and regions with the most records

ThailandIndiaChinaCambodiaNepalBangladeshMongoliaVietnam

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

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.

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