Japanese snapper

Japanese snapper
Japanese flycatcher ( Cyanoptila cyanomelana )
Systematics
Order : Passerines (Passeriformes) Subordination : Songbirds (passeri) Family : Flycatcher (Muscicapidae) Subfamily : Niltavinae Genre : Cyanoptila Type : Japanese snapper
Scientific name
Cyanoptila cyanomelana
( Temminck , 1829)

The blue-and-white flycatcher ( Cyanoptila cyanomelana , Jap. 大瑠璃 Oruri , literally "big Azure"), often Blauschnäpper called one is Songbird art that the family of flycatchers belongs (Muscicapidae). Since a former subspecies is now regarded as a separate species and is known as the turquoise blue flycatcher ( Cyanoptila cumatilis ), the Japanese flycatcher is also called the taiga bluecatcher to distinguish it .

The Japanese flycatcher is a migratory bird that breeds in Japan , Korea, and the adjacent areas of northeast China and the southeast of the Russian Far East . The wintering area is in Southeast Asia , mainly in the area from Vietnam , Cambodia and southern Thailand to the islands of Sumatra and Borneo .

Together with the Japanese nightingale and the Japanese robin , the Japanese flycatcher forms the trio of the three “famous songbirds of Japan”.

Web links

Commons : Cyanoptila cyanomelana  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Cyanoptila cyanomelana in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2008. Posted by: BirdLife International, 2004. Retrieved on January 25 of 2009.
• Videos, photos and sound recordings of Cyanoptila cyanomelana in the Internet Bird Collection