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The red-breasted flycatcher (Ficedula parva) is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family. It breeds in eastern Europe and across Central Asia and is migratory, wintering in south Asia. It is a regular passage migrant in western Europe, whereas the collared flycatcher which breeds further east is rare. This is because of the ...
The genus was introduced by the French naturalist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760 with the European pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) as the type species. [1] [2] The genus name is from Latin and refers to a small fig-eating bird (ficus, "fig") supposed to change into the blackcap in winter.
It is 12.5–14.0 cm (4.9–5.5 in) in length; the male and female are identical in plumage, with an orange-toned red breast and face lined with grey, brown upper-parts and a whitish belly. Juveniles are distinct, freckled brown all over and without the red breast; first-winter immatures are like the adults, except for more obvious yellow-brown ...
White-browed forest flycatcher: Fraseria cinerascens Hartlaub, 1857: 32 Fraser's forest flycatcher: Fraseria ocreata (Strickland, 1844) 33 Grey-throated tit-flycatcher: Fraseria griseigularis (Jackson, FJ, 1906) 34 Grey tit-flycatcher: Fraseria plumbea (Hartlaub, 1858) 35 Olivaceous flycatcher: Fraseria olivascens (Cassin, 1859) 36 Chapin's ...
Red-breasted flycatcher (Ficedula parva) A – scarce migrant Pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) A – breeding summer visitor ... (RSPB) and RSPB A to Z of UK Birds;
Red-flanked bluetail (sinipyrstö), Tarsiger cyanurus; Taiga flycatcher (idänpikkusieppo), Ficedula albicilla (A) Red-breasted flycatcher (pikkusieppo), Ficedula parva; European pied flycatcher (kirjosieppo), Ficedula hypoleuca; Collared flycatcher (sepelsieppo), Ficedula albicollis; Common redstart (leppälintu), Phoenicurus phoenicurus
The Common Redstart shows some affinity to the European Robin in many of its habits and actions. It has the same general carriage, and chat-like behaviour, and is the same length at 13–14.5 cm long but slightly slimmer and not quite as heavy, weighing 11–23 g.
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 ...