The taiga flycatcher [1] or mugimaki flycatcher [1] ( lat. Ficedula mugimaki ) differs from other flycatchers easily by a rusty-red breast (from a small flycatcher having a chest of similar color, it is easily distinguished by the fact that white flycatchers can clearly see white steering bases, and the taiga flycatcher has a black tail from a distance). The male has a black top, a wide stripe on the shoulders, a stripe behind the eye and an abdomen are white, a throat, a goiter and a chest, and sides are rusty-red. In females and young, instead of black, brownish-gray, instead of red, dirty yellowish-reddish. Calling is a dry, creaking crackle, like a creaking tree.
| Taiga flycatcher |
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| Scientific classification |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetrical |
| Infrastructure : | Passerida |
| Superfamily : | Muscicapoidea |
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| International scientific name |
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Ficedula mugimaki ( Temminck , 1815 ) |
| Security status |
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Least ConcernedIUCN 3.1 Least Concern : 22709331 |
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The song is a sonorous trill, similar to the song of a small flycatcher and reminiscent of the soft clicking of a small violin. Scream - dry crack "rrr" (as in the small flycatcher ), only rolling.
Usually visible sitting motionless on a branch, sometimes twitching tail. Held at the bottom of the crown of trees. Keeps alone or in a pair. Arrival is late, in late May - early June. Nesting habitats - dark coniferous taiga, mostly boggy, or mixed forest with predominance of conifers, with shrubs. In general, the birds are quite secretive, kept among branches, in the undergrowth, only the male sings openly. The nest is built in the thick of the forest, bushes, in the windbreak, but it is open on the branches or in the fork of the trunk, at a height of 1-8, usually 3-5 m. The nest looks like a compact bowl, the material is small twigs, bast fibers, moss, grass, roots, dry leaves, lichens, in the tray soft plant fibers, blades of grass, wool. The ratio of this or that material can be very different. Outside, the nest is often braided with cobwebs, with cocoons of spiders. In clutch 4-8 eggs, usually 5-6. The eggs are grayish-blue, rather bright, with reddish-brown specks, more dense at the blunt end. Nettle can be very small and dense in the form of a continuous coating. The size of the eggs is 16-19 x 12-15 mm.
