Red-breasted Flycatcher (Ficedula parva) [XC564515]
by Igor U\u0159inovsk\u00fd from Sundsvall, V\u00e4sternorrlands l\u00e4n, Sweden (song)
Red-breasted Flycatcher (Ficedula parva) [XC839677]
by Oscar Campbell from Ouessant, Cost Ar Reun, France (call)
Nest
A small cup, composed of moss, leaves and lichen, in a tree hollow or hole, lined with hair.
Eggs (Guide)
5 - 6; whitish, very finely speckled with reddish-brown.
Subspecies
Ficedula parva (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) has been split into Red-breasted Flycatcher (Ficedula parva) and Red-throated Flycatcher (Ficedula albicilla) following Svensson et al. (2005).
Probably forms a superspecies with Kashmir Flycatcher (Ficedula subrubra) and sometimes considered conspecific, but the two differ distinctly in plumage and wing structure. Subspecies albicilla sometimes treated as a separate species, but intergrades with nominate in western Siberia.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
parva (Bechstein, 1792) - Breeds central, eastern and south-eastern Europe (from central Finland, south-eastern Sweden, Denmark, northern Germany, Austria, Croatia and northern Greece) east to south-western Siberia, northern Turkey, Caucasus and northern Iran. Non-breeding mainly Pakistan and north, western and central India.
albicilla (Pallas, 1811) - Siberia to Kamchatka Pen. and northern Mongolia; > to Borneo. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Red-throated Flycatcher (Ficedula albicilla).
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