Red-breasted flycatcher: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the red-breasted flycatcher lives – recorded in 39 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Ficedula parva
Group	Songbirds & perching birds
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	39 countries
Continents	Asia, Europe
Mass	1.45 g (birth weight)
Class	Bird
Order	Passeriformes
Family	Muscicapidae

Where does the red-breasted flycatcher live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the red-breasted flycatcher in 39 countries and territories across Asia and Europe. Wikidata gives its range as: Africa.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

How big is a red-breasted flycatcher?

Wikidata records the following for the red-breasted flycatcher: mass 1.45 g (birth weight).

Is the red-breasted flycatcher endangered?

The red-breasted flycatcher’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the red-breasted flycatcher?

The red-breasted flycatcher (Ficedula parva) is a bird in the order Passeriformes and the family Muscicapidae, genus Ficedula. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the red-breasted flycatcher

The red-breasted flycatcher (Ficedula parva) is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family. It breeds in eastern Europe and across Central Asia and is migratory, wintering in south Asia. The breeding male is mainly muted brown above and white below, with a grey head and an orange throat. Females and immatures are similarly colored but lack the orange throat patch. The red-breasted flycatcher is a regular passage migrant in western Europe, whereas the collared flycatcher, which has a different migration route (wintering in Sub-Saharan Africa), is scarce. It forms a superspecies with the closely related taiga flycatcher and Kashmir flycatcher and can be distinguished from the former by its different song, warmer-toned plumage and the more extensive orange throat patch.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Red-breasted flycatcher (revision 1365339587), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q241499 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).