Old World Flycatchers (Muscicapidae)
Sapphire Flycatcher (Ficedula sapphira) - HBW 11, p. 143
French: Gobemouche saphir
German: Saphirschnäpper
Spanish: Papamoscas Zafiro
Other common names: Sapphire-headed Flycatcher
Taxonomy: M[uscicapula]. sapphira Blyth, 1843, Darjeeling, India.
Three subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- sapphira (Blyth, 1843) - E Himalayas from E Nepal E to S China (SE Xizang E to Sichuan and N Yunnan), NE India (S to S Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram) and N Myanmar.
- laotiana (Delacour & Greenaway, 1939) - S China (W Yunnan), N & C Laos and NW Vietnam (W Tonkin); non-breeding also NW Thailand.
- tienchuanensis Cheng Tsohsin, 1964 - NC China (S Gansu, S Shaanxi and WC & S Sichuan).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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a very small bird (male) in a very high canopy: calling, flitting, preening Locality Lama Camp, Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary, West Kameng District, Arunachal Pradesh, India (ssp sapphira)
Martin Kennewell 16 April 2010 1 year ago 35 sec 2.7 -
very brief and distant rear view of male Locality Mandala Road, Dirang, West Kameng District, Arunachal Pradesh, India (ssp sapphira)
Martin Kennewell 9 April 2010 1 year ago 3 sec 2.3
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