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Slaty-backed flycatcher

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The slaty-backed flycatcher (Ficedula erithacus) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae.

Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
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Slaty-backed flycatcher
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Muscicapidae
Genus: Ficedula
Species:
F. erithacus
Binomial name
Ficedula erithacus
(Blyth, 1861)
Synonyms
  • Ficedula sordida Godwin-Austen, 1874[1]
  • Ficedula hodgsonii [2]

(J. Verreaux, 1871)[citation needed]

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It is native to the eastern Himalayas, central China, Yunnan; it winters to northern Indochina. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

It is omnivorous.[3]

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