Snowy-browed flycatcher

Snowy-browed flycatcher
Male
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Muscicapidae
Genus:	Ficedula
Species:	F. hyperythra
Binomial name
Ficedula hyperythra (Blyth, 1843)

The snowy-browed flycatcher (Ficedula hyperythra) is a species of bird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.[2]

It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.[3] Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.[3]

Fourteen subspecies are recognised:[4]

• F. h. hyperythra (Blyth, 1843) – central Himalayas to central south China, north, central Indochina, north Thailand and Myanmar
• F. h. annamensis (Robinson & Kloss, 1919) – central south Vietnam
• F. h. innexa (Swinhoe, 1866) – Taiwan
• F. h. sumatrana (Hachisuka, 1926) – montane Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and north Borneo
• F. h. mjobergi (Hartert, EJO, 1925) – montane northwest Borneo
• F. h. vulcani (Robinson, 1918) – montane Java, Bali and Lombok, Sumbawa and Flores (west, central Lesser Sunda Islands)
• F. h. clarae (Mayr, 1944) – montane Timor and Wetar (east Lesser Sunda Islands)
• F. h. audacis (Hartert, EJO, 1906) – Babar Islands (far east Lesser Sunda Islands)
• F. h. annalisa (Stresemann, 1931) – montane north Sulawesi
• F. h. jugosae (Riley, 1921) – montane central, southeast, south Sulawesi
• F. h. betinabiru Rheindt, Prawiradilaga & Ashari & Suparno, 2020 – Taliabu (Sula Islands, east of Sulawesi)
• F. h. negroides (Stresemann, 1914) – Seram (central east Moluccas)
• F. h. pallidipectus (Hartert, EJO, 1903) – Bacan Islands (south of Halmahera, north Moluccas)
• F. h. alifura (Stresemann, 1912) – Buru (central west Moluccas)
• F. h. daggayana (Meyer de Schauensee & duPont, 1962) – Daggayan and Civoleg, Gingoog City

References

1. BirdLife International (2017). "Ficedula hyperythra". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T103769540A111167043. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-1.RLTS.T103769540A111167043.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
2. "Snowy-browed Flycatcher bird photo call and song/ Ficedula hyperythra (M [uscicapa]. hyperythra)". dibird.com. Retrieved 2022-05-20.
3. "Snowy-browed Flycatcher (Ficedula hyperythra) - BirdLife species factsheet". datazone.birdlife.org. Retrieved 2022-05-20.
4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (December 2023). "Chats, Old World flycatchers". IOC World Bird List Version 14.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 24 June 2024.