Old World Flycatchers (Muscicapidae)
Small Niltava (Niltava macgrigoriae) - HBW 11, p. 162
French: Gobemouche de McGrigor
German: Feenblauschnäpper
Spanish: Papamoscas de McGrigor
Other common names: Black-breasted Niltava
Taxonomy: Phoenicura MacGrigoriae E. Burton, 1836, western Himalayas.
Species name sometimes erroneously listed as “macgregoriae”. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- macgrigoriae (E. Burton, 1836) - W & C Himalayas.
- signata (McClelland, 1840) - E Himalayas E to NE India (Assam and Arunachal Pradesh S to Mizoram), N & E Myanmar, S China (SE Xizang and W & S Yunnan E to S Guangxi), N & W Thailand and N & C Indochina.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A male in a tree and flying away Locality Doi Inthanon National Park, North Western Thailand, Thailand (ssp signata)
Josep del Hoyo 5 November 2004 4 years ago 23 sec 4.6 -
A male singing from a branch and then flying away Locality Doi Inthanon National Park, North Western Thailand, Thailand (ssp signata)
Josep del Hoyo 5 November 2004 4 years ago 40 sec 3.9 -
A male perched on a branch and flying away Locality Yingjiang, Yunnan, China (Southern) (ssp signata)
Keith Blomerley 8 November 2007 4 years ago 21 sec 3.7 -
Two views of a male in a bush, and flying away. Locality Sat Tal, Nainital District, Uttarakhand, India (ssp macgrigoriae)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 1 February 2008 3 years ago 5 sec 3 -
mating Locality Chong Yen, Mae Wong National Park, North Western Thailand, Thailand (ssp Niltava macgrigoriae)
p.supat 17 March 2012 9 weeks ago 1 sec 1.7
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alone...
Locality Doi Inthanon National Park, North Western Thailand, Thailand (ssp N. macgrigoriae)
indy_22 19 September 2010 1 year ago 4.5 -
almost mating time
Locality Chong Yen, Mae Wong National Park, North Western Thailand, Thailand (ssp Niltava macgrigoriae))
p.supat 17 March 2012 10 weeks ago 4.3 -
Female adult.
Locality Doi Inthanon National Park, North Western Thailand, Thailand (ssp signata)
Christophe Gouraud 27 October 2009 1 year ago 3.5 -
A bird singing from a branch
Locality Mo Chhu River Valley, Punakha District, Bhutan (ssp sugnata)
Ian Fulton 2 April 2008 2 years ago 3.5 -
Adult female.
Locality Doi Inthanon National Park, North Western Thailand, Thailand (ssp signata)
Christophe Gouraud 27 October 2009 1 year ago 3.4 -
An adult bird in a very small cage, in Hong Kong bird markets
Locality Hong Kong
Pierre de Chabannes 1 August 2008 2 years ago 2
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Male singing from low in the understorey. Locality Sat Tal, Nainital District, Uttarakhand, India
(ssp signata)
Sam Woods 17 December 2007 2 years ago 3
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