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Animal India - Ficedula Albicilla - Taiga Flycatcher

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 an Aloe vera 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. (Photo by Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto)

Photo ID	#10787140
Date Taken	12 November 2023
Location	N/A
Photographer	Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto
Category	Human Interest
Copyright	© 2026 NurPhoto - Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto

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