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Rufous-vented Niltava Niltava sumatrana © Laurence Poh http://www.laurencepoh.com/

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 <

Swynnerton's Robin Swynnertonia swynnertoni

Western Forest Robin Stiphrornis erythrothorax
Olive-backed Forest Robin Stiphrornis pyrrholaemus
Gabon Forest Robin Stiphrornis gabonensis
Eastern Forest Robin Stiphrornis xanthogaster
Sangha Forest Robin Stiphrornis sanghensis

Bocage's Akalat Sheppardia bocagei
Lowland Akalat Sheppardia cyornithopsis
Equatorial Akalat Sheppardia aequatorialis
Sharpe's Akalat Sheppardia sharpei
East Coast Akalat Sheppardia gunningi
Gabela Akalat Sheppardia gabela
Rubeho Akalat Sheppardia aurantiithorax
Usambara Akalat Sheppardia montana
Iringa Akalat Sheppardia lowei

European Robin Erithacus rubecula
Japanese Robin Erithacus akahige
Ryukyu Robin Erithacus komadori

Bluethroat Luscinia svecica
Siberian Rubythroat Luscinia calliope
White-tailed Rubythroat Luscinia pectoralis
Rufous-headed Robin Luscinia ruficeps
Blackthroat Luscinia obscura
Firethroat Luscinia pectardens
Indian Blue Robin Luscinia brunnea
Siberian Blue Robin Luscinia cyane
Rufous-tailed Robin Luscinia sibilans
Thrush Nightingale Luscinia luscinia
Common Nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos

White-browed Bush Robin Tarsiger indicus
Rufous-breasted Bush Robin Tarsiger hyperythrus
Collared Bush Robin Tarsiger johnstoniae
Red-flanked Bluetail Tarsiger cyanurus
Himalayan Bluetail Tarsiger rufilatus
Golden Bush Robin Tarsiger chrysaeus

White-throated Robin Irania gutturalis

White-bellied Robin-Chat Cossyphicula roberti

Cameroon Mountain Robin Cossypha isabellae
Archer's Ground Robin Cossypha archeri
Olive-flanked Ground Robin Cossypha anomala
Cape Robin-Chat Cossypha caffra
White-throated Robin-Chat Cossypha humeralis
Grey-winged Robin-Chat Cossypha polioptera
Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat Cossypha cyanocampter
Rüppell's Robin-Chat Cossypha semirufa
White-browed Robin-Chat Cossypha heuglini
Red-capped Robin-Chat Cossypha natalensis
Chorister Robin-Chat Cossypha dichroa
White-headed Robin-Chat Cossypha heinrichi
Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat Cossypha niveicapilla
White-crowned Robin-Chat Cossypha albicapilla

Angola Cave Chat Xenocopsychus ansorgei

Collared Palm Thrush Cichladusa arquata
Rufous-tailed Palm Thrush Cichladusa ruficauda
Spotted Palm Thrush Cichladusa guttata

Forest Scrub Robin Erythropygia leucosticta
Miombo Scrub Robin Erythropygia barbata
Bearded Scrub Robin Erythropygia quadrivirgata
Brown Scrub Robin Erythropygia signata
Brown-backed Scrub Robin Erythropygia hartlaubi
White-browed Scrub Robin Erythropygia leucophrys
Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin Erythropygia galactotes
Kalahari Scrub Robin Erythropygia paena
Karoo Scrub Robin Erythropygia coryphaeus

Black Scrub Robin Cercotrichas podobe

Herero Chat Namibornis herero

Madagascar Magpie-Robin Copsychus albospecularis
Seychelles Magpie-Robin Copsychus sechellarum
Oriental Magpie-Robin Copsychus saularis
White-rumped Shama Copsychus malabaricus
Andaman Shama Copsychus albiventris
White-crowned Shama Copsychus stricklandii
White-browed Shama Copsychus luzoniensis
White-vented Shama Copsychus niger
Black Shama Copsychus cebuensis

Rufous-tailed Shama Trichixos pyrropygus

Indian Robin Saxicoloides fulicatus

Przevalski's Redstart Phoenicurus alaschanicus
Eversmann's Redstart Phoenicurus erythronotus
Blue-capped Redstart Phoenicurus caeruleocephala
Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros
Common Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus
Hodgson's Redstart Phoenicurus hodgsoni
White-throated Redstart Phoenicurus schisticeps
Daurian Redstart Phoenicurus auroreus
Moussier's Redstart Phoenicurus moussieri
Güldenstädt's Redstart Phoenicurus erythrogastrus
Blue-fronted Redstart Phoenicurus frontalis

White-bellied Redstart Hodgsonius phaenicuroides

Plumbeous Water Redstart Rhyacornis fuliginosa
Luzon Water Redstart Rhyacornis bicolor

White-capped Redstart Chaimarrornis leucocephalus

White-tailed Robin Myiomela leucura
Sunda Robin Myiomela diana
Nilgiri Blue Robin Myiomela major
White-bellied Blue Robin Myiomela albiventris

Blue-fronted Robin Cinclidium frontale

Grandala Grandala coelicolor

Little Forktail Enicurus scouleri
Sunda Forktail Enicurus velatus
Chestnut-naped Forktail Enicurus ruficapillus
Black-backed Forktail Enicurus immaculatus
Slaty-backed Forktail Enicurus schistaceus
White-crowned Forktail Enicurus leschenaulti
Spotted Forktail Enicurus maculatus

Whinchat Saxicola rubetra
White-browed Bush Chat Saxicola macrorhynchus
White-throated Bush Chat Saxicola insignis
Canary Islands Bush Chat Saxicola dacotiae
European Stonechat Saxicola rubicola
Siberian Stonechat Saxicola maurus
African Stonechat Saxicola torquatus
Reunion Stonechat Saxicola tectes
White-tailed Stonechat Saxicola leucurus
Pied Bush Chat Saxicola caprata
Jerdon's Bush Chat Saxicola jerdoni
Grey Bush Chat Saxicola ferreus
White-bellied Bush Chat Saxicola gutturalis

Buff-streaked Chat Campicoloides bifasciata

Red-rumped Wheatear Oenanthe moesta
Capped Wheatear Oenanthe pileata
Red-breasted Wheatear Oenanthe bottae
Heuglin's Wheatear Oenanthe heuglini
Isabelline Wheatear Oenanthe isabellina
Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe
Somali Wheatear Oenanthe phillipsi
Kurdistan Wheatear Oenanthe xanthoprymna
Red-tailed Wheatear Oenanthe chrysopygia
Pied Wheatear Oenanthe pleschanka
Cyprus Wheatear Oenanthe cypriaca
Black-eared Wheatear Oenanthe hispanica
Desert Wheatear Oenanthe deserti
Mourning Wheatear Oenanthe lugens
Abyssinian Wheatear Oenanthe lugubris
Arabian Wheatear Oenanthe lugentoides
Finsch's Wheatear Oenanthe finschii
Variable Wheatear Oenanthe picata
Mountain Wheatear Oenanthe monticola
Hume's Wheatear Oenanthe albonigra
White-crowned Wheatear Oenanthe leucopyga
Black Wheatear Oenanthe leucura
Hooded Wheatear Oenanthe monacha

Sickle-winged Chat Cercomela sinuata
Karoo Chat Cercomela schlegelii
Brown Rock Chat Cercomela fusca
Tractrac Chat Cercomela tractrac
Familiar Chat Cercomela familiaris
Brown-tailed Rock Chat Cercomela scotocerca
Sombre Rock Chat Cercomela dubia
Blackstart Cercomela melanura

Moorland Chat Pinarochroa sordida

Congo Moor Chat Myrmecocichla tholloni
Anteater Chat Myrmecocichla aethiops
Ant-eating Chat Myrmecocichla formicivora
Sooty Chat Myrmecocichla nigra
Rüppell's Black Chat Myrmecocichla melaena

White-fronted Black Chat Pentholaea albifrons
Arnot's Chat Pentholaea arnotti

Mocking Cliff Chat Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris
White-crowned Cliff Chat Thamnolaea coronata
White-winged Cliff Chat Thamnolaea semirufa

Boulder Chat Pinarornis plumosus

Cape Rock Thrush Monticola rupestris
Sentinel Rock Thrush Monticola explorator
Short-toed Rock Thrush Monticola brevipes
Miombo Rock Thrush Monticola angolensis
Pretoria Rock Thrush Monticola pretoriae
Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush Monticola saxatilis
Little Rock Thrush Monticola rufocinereus
Blue Rock Thrush Monticola solitarius
Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush Monticola rufiventris
Blue-capped Rock Thrush Monticola cinclorhynchus
White-throated Rock Thrush Monticola gularis
Littoral Rock Thrush Monticola imerina
Forest Rock Thrush Monticola sharpei
Amber Mountain Rock Thrush Monticola erythronotus
Benson's Rock Thrush Monticola bensoni

Fraser's Forest Flycatcher Fraseria ocreata
White-browed Forest Flycatcher Fraseria cinerascens

Angola Slaty Flycatcher Dioptrornis brunneus
White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher Dioptrornis fischeri
Abyssinian Slaty Flycatcher Dioptrornis chocolatinus

Nimba Flycatcher Melaenornis annamarulae
Yellow-eyed Black Flycatcher Melaenornis ardesiacus
Northern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis edolioides
Southern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis pammelaina

Pale Flycatcher Bradornis pallidus
Chat Flycatcher Bradornis infuscatus
African Grey Flycatcher Bradornis microrhynchus
Ethiopian Grey Flycatcher Bradornis pumilus
Marico Flycatcher Bradornis mariquensis

Fiscal Flycatcher Sigelus silens

Silverbird Empidornis semipartitus

Streak-breasted Jungle Flycatcher Rhinomyias additus
Russet-backed Jungle Flycatcher Rhinomyias oscillans
Brown-chested Jungle Flycatcher Rhinomyias brunneatus
Nicobar Jungle Flycatcher Rhinomyias nicobaricus
Fulvous-chested Jungle Flycatcher Rhinomyias olivaceus
Grey-chested Jungle Flycatcher Rhinomyias umbratilis
Rufous-tailed Jungle Flycatcher Rhinomyias ruficauda
Henna-tailed Jungle Flycatcher Rhinomyias colonus
Eyebrowed Jungle Flycatcher Rhinomyias gularis
White-throated Jungle Flycatcher Rhinomyias albigularis
White-browed Jungle Flycatcher Rhinomyias insignis
Slaty-backed Jungle Flycatcher Rhinomyias goodfellowi

Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata
Gambaga Flycatcher Muscicapa gambagae
Grey-streaked Flycatcher Muscicapa griseisticta
Dark-sided Flycatcher Muscicapa sibirica
Asian Brown Flycatcher Muscicapa dauurica
Ashy-breasted Flycatcher Muscicapa randi
Sumba Brown Flycatcher Muscicapa segregata
Brown-breasted Flycatcher Muscicapa muttui
Rusty-tailed Flycatcher Muscicapa ruficauda
Ferruginous Flycatcher Muscicapa ferruginea
Ashy Flycatcher Muscicapa caerulescens
Swamp Flycatcher Muscicapa aquatica
Cassin's Flycatcher Muscicapa cassini
Olivaceous Flycatcher Muscicapa olivascens
Chapin's Flycatcher Muscicapa lendu
Itombwe Flycatcher Muscicapa itombwensis
African Dusky Flycatcher Muscicapa adusta
Little Grey Flycatcher Muscicapa epulata
Yellow-footed Flycatcher Muscicapa sethsmithi
Dusky-blue Flycatcher Muscicapa comitata
Tessmann's Flycatcher Muscicapa tessmanni
Sooty Flycatcher Muscicapa infuscata
Ussher's Flycatcher Muscicapa ussheri
Böhm's Flycatcher Muscicapa boehmi

Grey-throated Tit-Flycatcher Myioparus griseigularis
Grey Tit-Flycatcher Myioparus plumbeus

Humblot's Flycatcher Humblotia flavirostris

European Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca
Atlas Pied Flycatcher Ficedula speculigera
Collared Flycatcher Ficedula albicollis
Semicollared Flycatcher Ficedula semitorquata
Yellow-rumped Flycatcher Ficedula zanthopygia
Narcissus Flycatcher Ficedula narcissina
Chinese Flycatcher Ficedula elisae
Mugimaki Flycatcher Ficedula mugimaki
Slaty-backed Flycatcher Ficedula hodgsonii
Rufous-chested Flycatcher Ficedula dumetoria
Tanimbar Flycatcher Ficedula riedeli
Rufous-gorgeted Flycatcher Ficedula strophiata
Red-breasted Flycatcher Ficedula parva
Taiga Flycatcher Ficedula albicilla
Kashmir Flycatcher Ficedula subrubra
Snowy-browed Flycatcher Ficedula hyperythra
Little Slaty Flycatcher Ficedula basilanica
Rufous-throated Flycatcher Ficedula rufigula
Cinnamon-chested Flycatcher Ficedula buruensis
Damar Flycatcher Ficedula henrici
Sumba Flycatcher Ficedula harterti
Palawan Flycatcher Ficedula platenae
Cryptic Flycatcher Ficedula crypta
Furtive Flycatcher Ficedula disposita
Lompobattang Flycatcher Ficedula bonthaina
Little Pied Flycatcher Ficedula westermanni
Ultramarine Flycatcher Ficedula superciliaris
Slaty-blue Flycatcher Ficedula tricolor
Sapphire Flycatcher Ficedula sapphira
Black-and-orange Flycatcher Ficedula nigrorufa
Black-banded Flycatcher Ficedula timorensis

Blue-and-white Flycatcher Cyanoptila cyanomelana

Dull-blue Flycatcher Eumyias sordidus
Verditer Flycatcher Eumyias thalassinus
Turquoise Flycatcher Eumyias panayensis
Nilgiri Flycatcher Eumyias albicaudatus
Indigo Flycatcher Eumyias indigo

Hainan Blue Flycatcher Cyornis hainanus
Pale Blue Flycatcher Cyornis unicolor
Rück's Blue Flycatcher Cyornis rucki
Blue-breasted Blue Flycatcher Cyornis herioti
White-bellied Blue Flycatcher Cyornis pallipes
Pale-chinned Blue Flycatcher Cyornis poliogenys
Hill Blue Flycatcher Cyornis banyumas
Large Blue Flycatcher Cyornis magnirostris
Palawan Blue Flycatcher Cyornis lemprieri
Tickell's Blue Flycatcher Cyornis tickelliae
Sunda Blue Flycatcher Cyornis caerulatus
Bornean Blue Flycatcher Cyornis superbus
Blue-throated Blue Flycatcher Cyornis rubeculoides
Chinese Blue Flycatcher Cyornis glaucicomans
Malaysian Blue Flycatcher Cyornis turcosus
Mangrove Blue Flycatcher Cyornis rufigastra
Tanahjampea Blue Flycatcher Cyornis djampeanus
Sulawesi Blue Flycatcher Cyornis omissus
Timor Blue Flycatcher Cyornis hyacinthinus
Blue-fronted Blue Flycatcher Cyornis hoevelli
Matinan Blue Flycatcher Cyornis sanfordi
White-tailed Flycatcher Cyornis concretus

White-gorgeted Flycatcher Anthipes monileger
Rufous-browed Flycatcher Anthipes solitaris

Fujian Niltava Niltava davidi
Rufous-bellied Niltava Niltava sundara
Rufous-vented Niltava Niltava sumatrana
Vivid Niltava Niltava vivida
Large Niltava Niltava grandis
Small Niltava Niltava macgrigoriae

Pygmy Flycatcher Muscicapella hodgsoni

  family links

 

Muscicapidae

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscicapidae
Full famill account

Muscicapidae

http://www.eeb.cornell.edu/winkler/botw/muscicapidae.html
Full family account

  species links

 

Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros

http://www.wildlifetrust.org.uk/urbanwt/ecorecord/bap/html/redstart.htm
Common 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 ochruros

http://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 stapazina

http://www.mangoverde.com/birdsound/spec/spec142-247.html
Image, sounds and references...

Black-throated Wheatear Saxicola stapazina

http://www.fact-index.com/b/bl/black_eared_wheatear.html
Brief fact sheet

Collared flycatcher Ficedula albicollis

http://www.cyf-kr.edu.pl/~uxcichon/pub/auk.html
Body-mass changes in female Collared Flycatchers: State-dependent strategy...

Collared flycatcher Ficedula albicollis

http://www.mangoverde.com/birdsound/spec/spec142-56.html
Sound recordings and references etc...

Collared Flycatcher Ficedula albicollis

http://www.cyf-kr.edu.pl/~uxcichon/pub/fceggs.html
Egg weight variation in Collared Flycatchers Ficedula albicollis...

Collared flycatcher Ficedula albicollis

http://www.fact-index.com/c/co/collared_flycatcher.html
Brief factsheet

Collared flycatcher Ficedula albicollis

http://home.btconnect.com/toadsnatcher/photos/lesbos/flycatcher_collared.html
Good image...

Desert Wheatear Oenanthe deserti

http://www.mangoverde.com/birdsound/spec/spec142-249.html
Images & references etc...

Johnstone's Bush Robin Erithacus johnstoniae

http://www.stanford.edu/~wkweng/photo/johnstonrobin.html
Image

Johnstone's Bush Robin Erithacus johnstoniae

http://www.gio.gov.tw/info/ecology/English/animals_e/HighAnimals_e/HighAnimals09_e.htm
Image and full species account...

Madagascar Magpie-robin Copsychus albospecularis

http://www.mangoverde.com/birdsound/spec/spec142-181.html
Image & references...

Mugimaki Flycatcher Ficedula mugimaki

http://members.tripod.com/~ChooBengTeong/MugimakiFlycatcher.htm
Images + 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 magarhynchos

http://www.birdcare.com/bin/showpage/portraits/ngportrait
Nightingales have many fans and areas where they can be heard become well known by local bird watchers and naturalists...

Oriental Magpie-robin Copsychus saularis

http://www.stlzoo.org/animals/abouttheanimals/birds/perchingbirds/magpierobin.htm
Image & notes

Siberian Rubythroat Luscinia calliope

http://www.fact-index.com/s/si/siberian_rubythroat.html
Brief Fact Sheet

Siberian Rubythroat Luscinia calliope

http://www.hlasek.com/luscinia_calliope_2299.html
Good image

Siberian Rubythroat Luscinia calliope

http://www.mangoverde.com/birdsound/spec/spec142-136.html
Sound recordings and references etc...

Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata - Ashley Beolens

http://www.birdsofbritain.co.uk/bird-guide/spotted-flycatcher.htm
Rather 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...

  numbers

 
Number of bird species: 301

  useful reading

 

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 Review
ISBN: 9780955382727
Buy this book from NHBS.com

The Book of Nightingales

by Richard Mabey - 131 pages, col photos, illus. Sinclair-Stevenson 1997
ISBN: 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 Publishers
ISBN: 9546422266
Buy this book from NHBS.com

  other links

 

Acceleration of senescence - Collared flycatcher Ficedula albicollis

http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v347/n6290/abs/347279a0.html
Acceleration 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.html
Since 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=Abstract
Sexual 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=682
The 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...

  artists

 

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.html
Gould 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.htm
Excellent image

Siberian Rubythroat Luscinia calliope

http://www.big.or.jp/~shimpset/photo40/nogoma.html
Good image

Siberian Rubythroat Luscinia calliope

http://www.avesphoto.com/website/NA/species/RBTSIB-1.htm
Excellent image...

Siberian Rubythroat Luscinia calliope

http://www.focusonnature.com/Siberian%20Rubythroat.htm
(good but small) Image

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