Taiga Flycatcher

About the Taiga Flycatcher

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.

Source: Wikipedia

Classification

Scientific name

Ficedula albicilla

Family

Old World Flycatchers

Order

Passeriformes

Similar species

Other members of the old world flycatchers family recorded in North America — a useful place to start if you are not certain of your identification.

• Amur Stonechat Saxicola stejnegeri
• Asian Brown Flycatcher Muscicapa dauurica
• Blue Rock-Thrush Monticola solitarius
• Bluethroat Luscinia svecica
• Common Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus
• Dark-sided Flycatcher Muscicapa sibirica
• European Robin Erithacus rubecula
• Gray-streaked Flycatcher Muscicapa griseisticta
• Mugimaki Flycatcher Ficedula mugimaki
• Narcissus Flycatcher Ficedula narcissina
• Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe
• Pied Wheatear Oenanthe pleschanka