Half-ring snapper

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Half-ring snapper
Half-ring flycatcher (Ficedula semitorquata)

Half-ring flycatcher ( Ficedula semitorquata )

Systematics
Order : Passerines (Passeriformes)
Subordination : Songbirds (passeri)
Family : Flycatcher (Muscicapidae)
Subfamily : Schmätzer (Saxicolinae)
Genre : Ficedula
Type : Half-ring snapper
Scientific name
Ficedula semitorquata
( from Homeyer , 1885)

The Halbringschnäpper ( Ficedula semitorquata ) is a bird art from the family of flycatchers (Muscicapidae).

Appearance

The half-ring flycatcher is a small songbird with a body length of 12-13 cm and a wingspan of around 23-24 cm. Similar to pied flycatchers and collared flycatchers , which also occur in Central Europe, the male's magnificent plumage is conspicuously black and white in color, with a white belly, black head and back and brownish arm wings and a white spot on the forehead. The female is, as with collar and pied flycatchers, much more subtle in color. Its back is dark beige, the belly lighter and almost white, the inner surfaces of the wings are white. Outside the breeding season, both sexes are inconspicuously colored. It is very difficult to distinguish the half-ring flycatcher from the pied flycatcher, but the collar flycatcher looks much lighter, especially due to its eponymous white neck ring (in a magnificent dress).

Occurrence and habitat

The breeding area of ​​the half-ring flycatcher stretches across the southern Balkans and southern Russia to the Middle East, with population centers in Turkey, Russia and especially Iran. Its wintering areas are in East Africa; in Central Europe it occurs only as an occasional migrant. He prefers old deciduous forests of the lowlands and high altitudes as habitat.

nutrition

As a typical representative of the flycatcher, the half-ring flycatcher is an insect hunter, especially in autumn berries and seeds are also added.

Reproduction

As a cave breeder, the half-ring flycatcher needs natural holes and niches or woodpecker holes in trees to breed. The breeding season extends from April to July.

Duration

Despite the drop in stocks since the 1970s, the IUCN lists the half-ring flycatcher in the Red List as "not endangered" (LC - least concern).

literature

  • Rob Hume, [transl. Einhard Bezzel; Eva Sixt]: Birds in Europe: Over 500 species . Dorling Kindersley, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-8310-1702-7 .
  • Eugen Ferdinand von Homeyer: The Caucasian flycatcher Muscicapa semitorquata nov. sp. In: Journal for the entire ornithology . tape 2 , 1885, p. 185-186, panel X ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Rob Hume (2010) p. 424.
  2. ↑ vogelwarte.ch - half-ring flycatcher. Retrieved April 21, 2019 .
  3. ^ The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved April 21, 2019 .