Listen to the red-breasted flycatcher
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About the red-breasted flycatcher
The red-breasted flycatcher is a bird in the family Muscicapidae (order Passeriformes). Its conservation status on the IUCN Red List is “least concern”. Adults weigh around 1 g.
What does the red-breasted flycatcher sound like?
Birds produce sound with the syrinx, a vocal organ deep in the chest that can make two independent sounds at once. Songs tend to be long and patterned and are used to hold territory and attract a mate; calls are short signals for contact, alarm and flight.
The recordings here are labelled as call and song. Listen for differences in rhythm, pitch and repetition – the spectrum display makes it easy to see whether a sound is a pure whistle (a thin line), a harsh call (a broad band) or a trill (rapid repeated marks).
From Wikipedia
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.
Related birds in the genus Ficedula
More from the family Muscicapidae
Frequently asked questions
What does a red-breasted flycatcher sound like?
You can hear 2 recordings of the red-breasted flycatcher on this page, including its call and song. Birds produce sound with the syrinx, a vocal organ deep in the chest that can make two independent sounds at once.
Is the red-breasted flycatcher endangered?
The IUCN Red List classifies the red-breasted flycatcher as “least concern”.
What family does the red-breasted flycatcher belong to?
The red-breasted flycatcher (Ficedula parva) belongs to the family Muscicapidae in the order Passeriformes.
Sources & credits
- Call · Skorošice, Jeseník District, Olomouc Region, Czech Republic by Zdeněk Vermouzek – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Call, song · Skorošice, Jeseník District, Olomouc Region, Czech Republic by Zdeněk Vermouzek – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q241499 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Red-breasted flycatcher – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by Nppgrandmeadow – CC BY-SA 4.0