Scientific Name: Ficedula albicilla
IUCN: Least Concern
The taiga flycatcher or red-throated flycatcher is a migratory bird.
Description: Small brown flycatcher with a sharply contrasting black-and-white tail. Breeding male has an orange throat patch surrounded by a faint gray wash. Non-breeding male has darker flanks and far less orange on the throat. Female is cold brown above and dirty-white below.
Food: They feed by taking insects in flight and caterpillars from among oak leaves. They also eats berries.
Habitat: Deciduous woodland near water.
Distribution: 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, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Malaysia, Thailand, China, Vietnam, and Japan. Its natural habitat is taiga forest. It is a rare vagrant to western Europe.
