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Muscicapidae
There are 301 species in the family Muscicapidae, made of of Flycatchers, Niltavas, Chats, Forktails, Redstarts, Robins & Wheatears etc. They are: White-starred Robin Pogonocichla stellata < Angola Cave Chat Xenocopsychus ansorgei Whinchat Saxicola rubetra Congo Moor Chat Myrmecocichla tholloni Streak-breasted Jungle Flycatcher Rhinomyias additus Blue-and-white Flycatcher Cyanoptila cyanomelana |
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Muscicapidaehttp://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/MuscicapidaeFull famill account Muscicapidaehttp://www.eeb.cornell.edu/winkler/botw/muscicapidae.htmlFull family account |
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Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruroshttp://www.wildlifetrust.org.uk/urbanwt/ecorecord/bap/html/redstart.htmCommon and widespread in continental Europe, the black redstart is a recent coloniser to Britain, first breeding on coastal cliffs of southern England in 1923. It took to bombed sites in London during the 1940s and has since spread to other urban areas. It is still rarer in Britain than either the golden eagle or osprey... Black Redstarts Phoenicurus ochruroshttp://www.blackredstarts.org.uk/Since 1997, conservation of the black redstart has raised its red tail above the parapet as an issue in urban Britain, specifically London. This website aims to draw on all the recent successes and information available in this field, one that is more pressing since the publication of the Government`s Urban White Paper in 2000. Amongst many welcome proposals, this targets urban brownfields for development and regeneration. Such areas support many of the strong holds of the black redstart in the UK. Black-throated Wheatear Saxicola stapazinahttp://www.mangoverde.com/birdsound/spec/spec142-247.htmlImage, sounds and references... Black-throated Wheatear Saxicola stapazinahttp://www.fact-index.com/b/bl/black_eared_wheatear.htmlBrief fact sheet Collared flycatcher Ficedula albicollishttp://www.cyf-kr.edu.pl/~uxcichon/pub/auk.htmlBody-mass changes in female Collared Flycatchers: State-dependent strategy... Collared flycatcher Ficedula albicollishttp://www.mangoverde.com/birdsound/spec/spec142-56.htmlSound recordings and references etc... Collared Flycatcher Ficedula albicollishttp://www.cyf-kr.edu.pl/~uxcichon/pub/fceggs.htmlEgg weight variation in Collared Flycatchers Ficedula albicollis... Collared flycatcher Ficedula albicollishttp://www.fact-index.com/c/co/collared_flycatcher.htmlBrief factsheet Collared flycatcher Ficedula albicollishttp://home.btconnect.com/toadsnatcher/photos/lesbos/flycatcher_collared.htmlGood image... Desert Wheatear Oenanthe desertihttp://www.mangoverde.com/birdsound/spec/spec142-249.htmlImages & references etc... Johnstone's Bush Robin Erithacus johnstoniaehttp://www.stanford.edu/~wkweng/photo/johnstonrobin.htmlImage Johnstone's Bush Robin Erithacus johnstoniaehttp://www.gio.gov.tw/info/ecology/English/animals_e/HighAnimals_e/HighAnimals09_e.htmImage and full species account... Madagascar Magpie-robin Copsychus albospecularishttp://www.mangoverde.com/birdsound/spec/spec142-181.htmlImage & references... Mugimaki Flycatcher Ficedula mugimakihttp://members.tripod.com/~ChooBengTeong/MugimakiFlycatcher.htmImages + The male mugimaki flycatcher is distinctly more ostentatious than the female, which don a more subdued coat. The pair shown here were taken at separate times. The male was shot earlier in the trip. It was much later that I came upon the female, and I put them together in this composite... Nightingale Luscinia magarhynchoshttp://www.birdcare.com/bin/showpage/portraits/ngportraitNightingales have many fans and areas where they can be heard become well known by local bird watchers and naturalists... Oriental Magpie-robin Copsychus saularishttp://www.stlzoo.org/animals/abouttheanimals/birds/perchingbirds/magpierobin.htmImage & notes Siberian Rubythroat Luscinia calliopehttp://www.fact-index.com/s/si/siberian_rubythroat.htmlBrief Fact Sheet Siberian Rubythroat Luscinia calliopehttp://www.hlasek.com/luscinia_calliope_2299.htmlGood image Siberian Rubythroat Luscinia calliopehttp://www.mangoverde.com/birdsound/spec/spec142-136.htmlSound recordings and references etc... Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata - Ashley Beolenshttp://www.birdsofbritain.co.uk/bird-guide/spotted-flycatcher.htmRather elegant slim upright profile. Mouse-brown upperparts and pale, lightly streaked below. Sexes similar. Makes dashes after flying insects, often returning to the same perch... |
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useful reading |
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Redbreast: The Robin in Life and Literature
by Andrew Lack 294 pages, colour and b&w illustrations SMH Books | Hardcover | 2007 | £19.95 | See Fatbirder ReviewISBN: 9780955382727
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The Book of Nightingales
by Richard Mabey - 131 pages, col photos, illus. Sinclair-Stevenson 1997ISBN: 1856196933
Buy this book from NHBS.com
The Wheatears of the Palaearctic: Ecology, Behaviour, and Evolution of the Genus Oenanthe
by EN Panov - 439 pages, figs, maps, illus, tabs. Pensoft PublishersISBN: 9546422266
Buy this book from NHBS.com
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Acceleration of senescence - Collared flycatcher Ficedula albicollis
http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v347/n6290/abs/347279a0.htmlAcceleration of senescence in the collared flycatcher Ficedula albicollis by reproductive costs...
Polygyny in the pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca
http://www.cyf-kr.edu.pl/~uxcichon/pub/ethol.htmlSince the evolutionary significance of polygynous mating systems was first recognized, many models have been proposed to explain why females mate with already-mated males. In the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca); a particulary well studied polygynous passerine species, two models of polygyny are most prominent nowadays: one in which already-mated males deceive the females about their mating status, and one in which the status of already-mated males is known to the females that decide to male with them anyway, making the best of a bad job. In our study we compared the models by computer simulation and then compared the results with available field data...
Sexual Selection - Collared flycatcher Ficedula albicollis
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?holding=npg&cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10049467&dopt=AbstractSexual selection resulting from extrapair paternity in collared flycatchers...
Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata - Norfolk Spotted Flycatcher Project 2006
http://www.birdguides.com/birdnews/article.asp?a=682The Spotted Flycatcher is the subject of a BTO study which commenced in 2003. The population of this species in the UK has declined by 78% between 1972 and 1996 and is a species of high conservation concern...
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Black-throated Wheatear Saxicola stapazina
http://www.oldprints.co.uk/prints/birds/images/87978.htm(Excellent) Image
Collared flycatcher Ficedula albicollis
http://www.classicnatureprints.com/pr.Gould%20Birds/Gould.pied.flycatcher.htmlGould painted image
Golden Bush-robin Tarsiger chrysaeus
http://www.orientalbirdimages.org/search.php?action=searchresult&Bird_ID=2566(Bit obscure) Image
Madagascar Magpie-robin Copsychus albospecularis
http://www.avesphoto.com/website/MA/species/ROBMAP-1.htmExcellent image
Siberian Rubythroat Luscinia calliope
http://www.big.or.jp/~shimpset/photo40/nogoma.htmlGood image
Siberian Rubythroat Luscinia calliope
http://www.avesphoto.com/website/NA/species/RBTSIB-1.htmExcellent image...
Siberian Rubythroat Luscinia calliope
http://www.focusonnature.com/Siberian%20Rubythroat.htm(good but small) Image
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