The Old World flycatchers are a large family, the Muscicapidae, of small passerine birds restricted to the Old World, with the exception of several vagrants and two species, bluethroat and northern wh
Muscicapa striata мухоловка сіра
Madagascar magpie-robin Copsychus albospecularis pica
Silverbird, monotypic genus Empidornis
Tickell's blue flycatcher, genus Cyornis
The thrushes are a passerine bird family, Turdidae, with a worldwide distribution. The family was once much larger before biologists reclassified the former subfamily Saxicolinae, which includes the c
Old World flycatcher
…German ornithologist Ernst Hartert found it impossible to define boundaries between the three families Muscicapidae, Sylviidae (Old World warblers) and Turdidae (thrushes). He therefore treated them as subfamilies of an extended flycatcher family that also included Timaliidae (Old World babblers) and Monarchidae…
Psophocichla litsitsirupa
Redwing, fieldfare, ring ouzel