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Taiga Flycatcher
Ficedula albicilla · Family Muscicapidae
Ficedula albicilla
Family Muscicapidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Muscicapidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 149,580
- Countries and territories with records
- 45
About this species
This species has 149,580 occurrence records from 45 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (40.7%), Thailand (30.3%), China (6.6%), Cambodia (4.5%) and Nepal (3.9%); together they account for 85.9% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.099% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Ficedula albicilla combines the genus name Ficedula with the species epithet albicilla. The Warbla app catalog lists 35 species of the genus Ficedula; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Ficedula hypoleuca, Ficedula parva and Ficedula albicollis.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 316 species of the family Muscicapidae. This species ranks 29th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Erithacus rubecula. Its record count is 1.3 times the family average (117,032). The family Muscicapidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.