The Zoochat Photographic Guide To The Muscicapoidea (Part I) - Old World Flycatchers and Chats

Red-breasted Flycatcher (Ficedula parva)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout central and southeast Europe into eastern Europe, European Russia and the Caucasus; the wintering range of this species extends throughout Pakistan and Peninsular India, with patchy populations in the southeast Arabian Peninsula.

Monotypic.

Photo by @alexkant




Red-throated Flycatcher (Ficedula albicilla)

The summer breeding range of this species extends from eastern European Russia in the west, throughout Siberia and northern Mongolia, to the Russian Far East in the east; the wintering range of this species extends from north-central India in the west to southeast China in the east, and south throughout Indochina and the Malay Peninsula.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Kashmir Flycatcher (Ficedula subrubra)

The summer breeding range of this species is restricted to a patchy distribution in the Kashmir region of northwest India and northeast Pakistan; the wintering range of this species is restricted to Sri Lanka and southernmost India.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Semi-collared Flycatcher (Ficedula semitorquata)

The summer breeding range of this species extends patchily throughout the Balkans in the west, through Turkey and the Caucasus to northern Iran in the east; the wintering range of this species extends throughout east-central Africa from southern South Sudan to western Tanzania.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


European Pied Flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca)

The summer breeding range of this species extends from the British Isles, Iberian Peninsula and North Africa in the west, throughout Europe and northwest Asia into western and south-central Siberia in the east; the wintering range of this species extends throughout West Africa and the Congo Basin from Senegal and Gambia in the west to the northern DRC in the east, and south to Gabon and Congo.

Four subspecies recognised:

F. h. hypoleuca - photo by @gentle lemur



F. h. tomensis
F. h. iberiae - photo by @Kakapo



F. h. speculigera


Collared Flycatcher (Ficedula albicollis)

The summer breeding range of this species extends from eastern France in the west, throughout central, eastern and southern Europe to the northern Caucasus in the east; the wintering range of this species extends throughout south-central Africa.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Damar Flycatcher (Ficedula henrici)

Endemic to Damar Island in the eastern Lesser Sundas.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Rufous-throated Flycatcher (Ficedula rufigula)

Endemic to Sulawesi.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Cinnamon-chested Flycatcher (Ficedula buruensis)

The range of this species is restricted to Buru, Seram and Kai Besar in the southern Moluccas.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Sumba Flycatcher (Ficedula harterti)

Endemic to Sumba in the southern Lesser Sundas.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Black-banded Flycatcher (Ficedula timorensis)

Endemic to Timor in the eastern Lesser Sundas.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Little Slaty Flycatcher (Ficedula basilanica)

The range of this species extends throughout the east-central and southern Philippines, from Samar in the north to Mindanao and Basilan in the south.

Two subspecies recognised:

F. b. samarensis
F. b. basilanica

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Thicket Flycatcher (Ficedula luzoniensis)

The range of this species extends throughout the Philippines.

Eight subspecies recognised:

F. l. calayensis
F. l. luzoniensis
F. l. rara
F. l. nigrorum
F. l. malindangensis
F. l. daggayana
F. l. montigena
F. l. matutumensis

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Cryptic Flycatcher (Ficedula crypta)

Endemic to the montane forests of Mindanao in the southern Philippines.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Lompobattang Flycatcher (Ficedula bonthaina)

Endemic to the Lompobattang Masssif of southwest Sulawesi.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Black-and-orange Flycatcher (Ficedula nigrorufa)

Endemic to the southern Western Ghats of India.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Rufous-chested Flycatcher (Ficedula dumetoria)

The range of this species extends from southern Thailand in the north, through Peninsular Malaysia into the Greater and Lesser Sundas.

Two subspecies recognised:

F. d. muelleri
F. d. dumetoria

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Tanimbar Flycatcher (Ficedula riedeli)

Endemic to Tanimbar in the eastern Lesser Sundas.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Furtive Flycatcher (Ficedula disposita)

Endemic to Luzon in the northern Philippines.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Palawan Flycatcher (Ficedula platenae)

Endemic to Palawan in the western Philippines.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Perhaps my favourite genus (and species) of Old World Flycatcher next.....

 

Phoenicurus


Ala Shan Redstart (Phoenicurus alaschanicus)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout north-central China, with wintering populations present in central China and coastal northeast China.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Eversmann’s Redstart (Phoenicurus erythronotus)

The summer breeding range of this species extends from southeast Kazakhstan and adjacent Kyrgyzstan, northeast through eastern Kazakhstan and northwest China to western Mongolia and adjacent south-central Siberia as far as Lake Baikal; the southwest end of this range is resident. The wintering range of this species extends throughout southern Central Asia from Tien Shan to southern Iran, east from here into Pakistan and northwest India, and south from here into the northern Arabian Peninsula.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Blue-fronted Redstart (Phoenicurus frontalis)

The summer breeding range of this species extends from northeast Afghanistan, east throughout the Himalayas into central and south-central China; the wintering range of this species extends throughout the southern foothills of the Himalayas, and in the east patchily into northern Indochina.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Blue-capped Redstart (Phoenicurus coeruleocephala)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout the Tien Shan mountains, south into northeast Afghanistan and adjacent northern Pakistan, and from here east through the Himalayas to central Nepal; the wintering range of this species extends throughout the southern foothills of the Himalayas from northern Pakistan to Bhutan.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


White-throated Redstart (Phoenicurus schisticeps)

The range of this species extends throughout the central and eastern Himalayas from west-central Nepal to northeast India and southwest China, and from here throughout central China.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


White-capped Water-redstart (Phoenicurus leucocephalus)

The range of this species extends throughout southern Central Asia into northeast Afghanistan, and east from here throughout the Himalayas to central and northeast China, and south from here into northern Indochina; wintering populations extend further south within Indochina, and also into southeast China and Hainan.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Chlidonias




Plumbeous Water-redstart (Phoenicurus fuliginosus)

The range of this species extends from eastern Afghanistan in the west, through the Himalayas and central China, to northeast China in the east, and south from here throughout southeast China, Taiwan and northeast Indochina; wintering populations are present in northwest Indochina.

Two subspecies recognised:

P. f. fuliginosus - photo by @Chlidonias



P. f. affinis


Luzon Water-redstart (Phoenicurus bicolor)

Endemic to northern Luzon in the Philippines.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Black Redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia, from the British Isles and Iberian Peninsula in the west, throughout western and central Europe to the Balkans and Asia Minor, and from here into the Caucasus and Central Asia, as far east as west-central China and western Mongolia; populations in the south of this range are patchily resident. The wintering range of this species extends patchily through the British Isles and Iberian Peninsula, south into North Africa, and east from here into northeast Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and Middle East, as far as the Indian subcontinent.

Five subspecies recognised:

P. o. gibraltariensis - photo by @ThylacineAlive



P. o. ochruros
P. o. semirufus
P. o. phoenicuroides
P. o. rufiventris


Common Redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout Europe, the Middle East and western Asia, and into Central Asia and Siberia, from the British Isles, Iberian Peninsula and North Africa in the west, extending into the Middle East, Caucasus and northern Iran in the southeast and northern Mongolia and adjacent south-central Siberia in the northeast; the wintering range of this species extends across the Sahel of Africa from Senegal and Gambia in the west to Eritrea, Ethiopia and southern Somalia in the east.

Two subspecies recognised:

P. p. phoenicurus - photo by @TeaLovingDave



P. p. samamisicus


Moussier's Redstart (Phoenicurus moussieri)

The resident and summer breeding range of this species extends throughout the Atlas Mountains of North Africa, from southwest Morocco to northeast Tunisia, with wintering populations extending more widely through the lower foothills of North Africa from southern Morocco, throughout northern Algeria and Tunisia to northwest Libya.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Zoo Tycooner FR




Daurian Redstart (Phoenicurus auroreus)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout northeast Mongolia and adjacent southeast Siberia in the west, east into northeast China and the Russian Far East, and south from here into central China; resident populations exist in central Japan and the northern Korean Peninsula. The wintering range of this species extends throughout southern China, northern Indochina, the southern Korean Peninsula and southern Japan.

Two subspecies recognised:

P. a. auroreus
P. a. leucopterus - photo by @aardvark250




White-winged Redstart (Phoenicurus erythrogastrus)

The range of this species comprises a number of highly-disjunct resident populations; in the central Caucasus; in south-central Siberia and western Mongolia, extending into the Tien Shan Mountains in the southwest; and in the central Himalayas. The summer breeding range of the species extends throughout north-central China west into the Tien Shan Mountains, south from into northern Afghanistan, and east from here throughout the Himalayas; wintering populations are found at the lower altitudes of this range, and also in northeast China and northern Indochina.

Two subspecies recognised:

P. e. erythrogastrus - photo by @Tomek



P. e. grandis - photo by @Chlidonias




Hodgson's Redstart (Phoenicurus hodgsoni)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout the central and southeast Tibetan Plateau, into central and north-central China; wintering populations extend throughout the central and eastern Himalayas from western Nepal to southeast China and adjacent northern Myanmar, and north from here into east-central China.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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No other photographs of that species full stop.

 

That would be Blue-and-White Flycatcher (Cyanoptila cyanomelana)

 

Monticola


Blue-capped Rock-thrush (Monticola cinclorhyncha)

The summer breeding range of this species extends from eastern Afghanistan into the western and central Himalayas, as far east as Bhutan; the wintering range of this species extends throughout the Western Ghats of southwest India, and also east-central India.

Monotypic.

Photo by @gentle lemur




Chestnut-bellied Rock-thrush (Monticola rufiventris)

The range of this species extends from northern Pakistan in the west, throughout the Himalayas to northeast India and adjacent northern Myanmar in the east, and from here east into south-central and eastern China, and south into northwest Myanmar; wintering populations extend south into southeast China and northern Indochina.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Kakapo




White-throated Rock-thrush (Monticola gularis)

The summer breeding range of this species extends from southeast Siberia into the Russian Far East, northeast China and North Korea; wintering populations extend across southeast China and eastern Indochina, and patchily into central and western Indochina.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Kakapo




Short-toed Rock-thrush (Monticola brevipes)

The range of this species extends across southwest and southern Africa, from southwest Angola to northwest South Africa, and east into central and north-central South Africa, and adjacent southern Botswana.

Two subspecies recognised:

M. b. brevipes
M. b. pretoriae

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Sentinel Rock-thrush (Monticola explorator)

The range of this species extends across southern and southeast Africa, from the Western Cape to southeast South Africa, and north through Lesotho, eastern South Africa and Swaziland to the extreme south of Mozambique.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Littoral Rock-thrush (Monticola imerina)

The range of this species is restricted to coastal southwest and southern Madagascar.

Monotypic.

Photo by @lintworm




Amber Mountain Rock-thrush (Monticola erythronotus)

Endemic to Mt. Amber in northernmost Madagascar.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Forest Rock-thrush (Monticola sharpei)

The range of this species extends throughout eastern, central and southwest Madagascar.

Two subspecies recognised:

M. s. bensoni - photo by @lintworm



M. s. sharpei


Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush (Monticola saxatilis)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout southern Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia, from the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa in the west, through southern and central Europe, Asia Minor, the Caucasus and the central Asian states, to northern China, Mongolia and south-central Siberia in the east; the wintering range of this species extends throughout eastern Africa from southern Chad in the west to Eritrea and Ethiopia in the east, and south to southern Tanzania, with smaller disjunct populations scattered patchily across the western and central Sahel.

Monotypic.

Photo by @TeaLovingDave




Blue Rock-thrush (Monticola solitarius)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout southern Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and East Asia, from the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa in the west, through southern and central Europe, Asia Minor, the Caucasus and Central Asia, throughout the Himalayas and into southern and south-central China in the east; north of here the breeding range extends into northeast China, the Russian Far East and Korean Peninsula, and into Japan. Populations in Europe and Asia Minor, the Himalayas, China and Japan are resident. A disjunct resident population also exists in the Malay Peninsula and northern Sumatra. The wintering range of this species extends patchily throughout Saharan Africa in the west, through the Arabian Peninsula, southwest Asia and Indian Subcontinent into Indochina in the east, and south into the Greater and Lesser Sundas, Moluccas and Philippines.

Five subspecies recognised:

M. s. solitarius - photo by @Vision



M. s. longirostris
M. s. pandoo
M. s. philippensis - photo by @Terry Thomas



M. s. madoci


Little Rock-thrush (Monticola rufocinereus)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout northeast Africa from northeast Tanzania and adjacent Kenya in the south to Eritrea and Ethiopia in the north, and into the southwest Arabian Peninsula.

Two subspecies recognised:

M. r. rufocinereus - photo by @LaughingDove



M. r. sclateri


White-winged Cliff-chat (Monticola semirufus)

The range of this species is restricted to south-central Eritrea, and throughout Ethiopia barring the southeast.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Miombo Rock-thrush (Monticola angolensis)

The range of this species extends throughout south-central Africa, from Angola in the west to southern Tanzania and northwest Mozambique in the east, south into Zimbabwe and northeast Botswana, and north through the Albertine Rift into east-central DRC and Rwanda.

Two subspecies recognised:

M. a. angolensis
M. a. hylophilus

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Cape Rock-thrush (Monticola rupestris)

The range of this species extends throughout southern Africa, from northeast South Africa, south through eastern South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho to the Cape.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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I've uploaded some new photos of various birds - not all for this thread but including some missing species or subspecies, and some for later (thrushes etc). There's a Little Forktail in there too.

I have seen eleven species of redstart in the wild, but only have photos of very few unfortunately (I think just three species).

 

Out of general interest, which are the 11 species?

Annoyingly, there was an extremely showy vagrant Eastern Black Redstart near me for about 4 or 5 months something like a year ago, but in order to get to the village where it was located by public transport I would have had to walk on a notoriously dangerous stretch of footpath (about three miles running along the edge of a cliff subject to coastal erosion) and I didn't feel like chancing my luck. Pity, as that subspecies is very attractive and looks pretty different to the Western.

 

Actually ten - I miscounted:

Daurian Redstart Phoenicurus auroreus auroreus (South Korea; Russia; Mongolia) and P. a. leucopterus (China; Burma; India)
Hodgson's Redstart Phoenicurus hodgsoni (China)
Blue-fronted Redstart Phoenicurus frontalis (China)
White-throated Redstart Phoenicurus schisticeps (China)
White-winged Redstart Phoenicurus erythrogastrus grandis (China; India)
Blue-capped Redstart Phoenicurus caeruleocephala (India)
Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros (ssp?) (India)
White-bellied Redstart Hodgsonius phoenicuroides ichangensis (Thailand)
White-capped Water Redstart Chaimarrornis leucocephalus (China; Burma)
Plumbeous Water Redstart Rhyacornis fuliginosa fuliginosa (China; India; Vietnam)

China is great for redstarts...

 

That would, I think, be P. o. phoenicuroides - which is the subspecies which I refer to above as a vagrant to my area in recent years.

This is a photo from elsewhere online of the vagrant bird - does it look right for the subspecies you saw?



Having to consciously decide not to seek out that bird - despite it only being about a dozen miles from me - is the second most annoying Old World Flycatcher "miss" I have experienced; the first is a Desert Wheatear which was long-staying in Whitby for about a month, but which was eaten by a cat the morning I went to see it.......

 

There are both resident and migratory subspecies in India, and they can't be readily separated in winter when they are mixing so I leave them as unknowns.

I've seen a lot of Desert Wheatears in India - they are gorgeous birds. I wouldn't expect to see one in England though!

 

We get one or two vagrant Desert Wheatear in the UK most years, I believe - usually between late autumn and early spring. Strangely, I think the Black-eared Wheatear - whose native grounds are a lot closer - is a lot more uncommon as a vagrant.

According to the annotation by @gentle lemur , it was taken in 1972 at London Zoo.

That would be very much appreciated, if you have decent photographs of them!

Excellent is that the shot you have labelled as Littoral Rock-thrush, as I cannot find any other rock-thrushes in that gallery?