The Black Paradise Flycatcher or the Dark-Backed Long- Tailed Flycatcher [1] ( lat. Terpsiphone atrocaudata ) is a bird of the monarch family.
| Black Paradise Flycatcher |
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| Scientific classification |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetrical |
| Infrastructure : | Passerida |
| View: | Black Paradise Flycatcher |
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| International scientific name |
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Terpsiphone atrocaudata ( Eyton , 1839 ) |
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Close to vulnerableIUCN 3.1 Near Threatened : 22707151 |
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The head is bluish-black, the skin around the eyes is bluish. The back and wings are purplish brown. The length of the male is 44.5 cm, and the females 17.5 cm. The male has a long tail, which is purplish-black in color, the female has a short brown tail. The upper surface of the female is light, and the length of the tail is less than that of the male.
Flycatchers are common throughout East Asia , Japan , and the Western Pacific . In the fauna of Russia, a rare flying species, recorded over more than 150 years of ornithological observations only 6 times in the coastal regions of the southern half of the Primorsky Territory [2] . EP Spangenberg mentions the first specimen mined by Sablina at the end of June 1941 in Nakhodka Bay, Peter the Great Bay and stored in the collection of the Zoological Museum of Moscow State University [1] .
Lay 3 to 5 eggs. The breeding season lasts from May to June. The nesting period is 12-14 days. Male and female build a nest together.
- β 1 2 Spangenberg E.P. Dark- backed Long- Tailed Flycatcher Terpsiphone atrocaudata Eyton. // Birds of the Soviet Union. T. 6, S. 124-126.
- β Kurdyukov A. B., Volkovskaya-Kurdyukova E. A. The Black Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone atrocaudata - the first meeting on the Prikhankaiskaya lowland. // Russian Ornithological Journal 2014, Volume 23, Express issue 1071: P. 3635-3636
