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,

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, Nepal, Malaysia, Thailand,

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, Vietnam, and

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. 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

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''cilla'' tail; this meaning of ''cilla'' arose from a misunderstanding of ''motacilla'', the name for the

wagtail Wagtails are a group of passerine birds that form the genus ''Motacilla'' in the family Motacillidae. The forest wagtail belongs to the monotypic genus ''Dendronanthus'' which is closely related to ''Motacilla'' and sometimes included therein. T ...

Gallery

File:Red-throated Flycatcher (Ficedula parva) at Sindhrot near Vadodara, Gujrat Pix 112.jpg, At Sindhrot in the Vadodara district of Gujarat, India File:The Taiga Flycatcher.JPG, At Chandigarh, India File:Taiga flycatcher HR.jpg, In Madobpur Lake, Shylet, Bangladesh File:Taiga_Flycatcher.jpg, In Hyderabad, Telangana, India File:4G4A5115.jpg, Male File:4G4A7194.jpg, Female

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