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title: "Gobemouche de la taïga"
description: "Ficedula albicilla — Oiseaux. The taiga flycatcher or red-throated flycatcher (Ficedula albicilla) is a migratory bird in the family Muscicapidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/fr/animal/taiga-flycatcher
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Gobemouche de la taïga

> Ficedula albicilla — Oiseaux. The taiga flycatcher or red-throated flycatcher (Ficedula albicilla) is a migratory bird in the family Muscicapidae.

- Scientific name: *Ficedula albicilla*
- Category: `birds` (Oiseaux)
- Habitats: `forest` (Forêt)
- iNaturalist observations: 4976
- Wikidata: [Q2784761](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2784761)
- iNaturalist taxon: [68519](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/68519)

## Names

- en: Taiga Flycatcher
- de: Taigafliegenschnäpper
- es: Papamoscas de la taiga
- fr: Gobemouche de la taïga
- pl: Muchołówka rdzawogardła

## Countries with the most observations

TH (1376), IN (800), RU (573), CN (529), CA (156), HK (138), VN (105), KH (67), MN (63), BD (45), KR (44), SG (35)

## Summary

The taiga flycatcher or red-throated flycatcher (Ficedula albicilla) is a migratory bird in the family Muscicapidae. The species was first described by Peter Simon Pallas in 1811. The female has brown upper parts with a blackish tail flanked by white. The breast is buffish with underparts mostly white. The male has ear coverts and sides of the neck blue-tinged grey with breeding males having orange-red coloration on the throats. Unlike the taiga flycatcher, the female of the similar red-breasted flycatcher has a brown tail while the red colour in breeding males extends to the breast in the red-breasted flycatcher…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiga_flycatcher

## Photo

![Gobemouche de la taïga](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/taiga-flycatcher/medium.jpg)

Photo: Quillipede · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/332175524

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/taiga-flycatcher?lang=fr` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).