Muscicapa ruficauda

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• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.4     Forest - Temperate   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
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Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001

Similar Species

Members of the genus Muscicapa

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 39 species and subspecies in this genus:

M. adusta (African Dusky Flycatcher) · M. adusta adusta (African Dusky Flycatcher) · M. albicaudata (Nilgiri Verditer Flycatcher) · M. aquatica (Swamp Flycatcher) · M. boehmi (Böhm's Flycatcher) · M. caerulescens (Blue-Grey Flycatcher) · M. caerulescens caerulescens (Blue-Grey Flycatcher) · M. cassini (Cassin's Grey Flycatcher) · M. coerulescens (Rueck's Blue-Flycatcher) · M. comitata (Dusky Blue Flycatcher) · M. dauurica (Brown-Streaked Flycatcher) · M. dauurica dauurica (Brown-Streaked Flycatcher) · M. epulata (Little Gray Flycatcher) · M. ferruginea (Ferruginous Flycatcher) · M. gambagae (Gambaga Spotted Flycatcher) · M. griseigularis (Grey-Throated Tit-Flycatcher) · M. griseisticta (Chinese Gray-Spotted Flycatcher) · M. indigo (Indigo Flycatcher) · M. infuscata (African Sooty Flycatcher) · M. infuscata infuscata (African Sooty Flycatcher) · M. itombwensis (Itombwe Flycatcher) · M. lendu (Chapins' Flycatcher) · M. muttui (Brown-Breasted Flycatcher) · M. olivascens (Olivaceous Flycatcher) · M. panayensis (Philippine Verditer Flycatcher) · M. randi (Ashy-Breasted Flycatcher) · M. ruficauda (Rufous-Tailed Flycatcher) · M. segregata (Sumba Brown Flycatcher) · M. sethsmithi (Yellow-Footed Flycatcher Flycatcher) · M. sibirica (Dark-Sided Flycatcher) · M. sibirica cacabata (Siberian Flycatcher) · M. sibirica sibirica (Siberian Flycatcher) · M. sordida (Sri Lankan Dusky Blue Flycatcher) · M. striata (Spotted Flycatcher) · M. striata striata (Spotted Flycatcher) · M. tessmanni (Tessmann's Flycatcher) · M. thalassina (Indian Verditer Flycatcher) · M. thalassina thalassina (Indian Verditer Flycatcher) · M. ussheri (Ussher's Dusky Flycatcher)

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Further Reading

• A catalogue of the collection of birds formed by the late Hugh Edwin Strickland. Cambridge, Univ. Press, 1882. url p. 140.
• A hand-list of genera and species of birds of the Indian empire, by E. C. Stuart Baker. .. Bombay, Printed by order of the committee of the Bombay natural history society[1923] url p. 79.
• Birds from Nepal [by] Austin L. Rand [and] Robert L. Fleming. 41 1957 [Chicago]Chicago Natural History Museum, 1957. url p. 180.
• Birds. By Eugene W. Oates. London: Taylor and Francis; [etc., etc.], 1889-98. url p. 36.
• Catalogue of the birds in the Museum Asiatic Society / by Edward Blyth. Published by order of the society. Calcutta: J. Thomas, 1849. url p. 338.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 320, p. 363.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 53.
• The Bulletin of zoological nomenclature. London, International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature. url , , p. 129, p. 136, p. 15, p. 16, p. 180, p. 183, p. 184, p. 185, p. 277, p. 3, p. 5.
• The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. Bombay: The Society, url p. 706.
• The avifauna of British India and its dependencies: a systematic account, with descriptions of all the known species of birds inhabiting British India, observations on their habits, nidification, &c., tables of their geographical distribution in Persia by James A. Murray. London: Trübner, 1888-1890. url p. 228.
• The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. By Eugene W. Oates. London, Taylor and Francis; [etc., etc.]1889-98. url p. 36.
• The natural history of the USSR / Algirdas Knystautas; foreword by Vladimir Flint; [translation, John S. Scott]. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1987. url p. 214.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2009. Muscicapa ruficauda. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 02February2012.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 4734
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-561247
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13752959
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 561247
• IUCN ID: 224680
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 138325

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