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title: "Tajgówka"
description: "Cyanoptila cyanomelana — Ptaki. The blue-and-white flycatcher (Cyanoptila cyanomelana) is a migratory songbird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/blue-and-white-flycatcher
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Tajgówka

> Cyanoptila cyanomelana — Ptaki. The blue-and-white flycatcher (Cyanoptila cyanomelana) is a migratory songbird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.

- Scientific name: *Cyanoptila cyanomelana*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: `forest` (Las)
- iNaturalist observations: 3155
- Wikidata: [Q73477](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q73477)
- iNaturalist taxon: [13258](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/13258)

## Names

- en: Blue-and-white Flycatcher
- de: Blauschnäpper
- es: Papamoscas Azul
- fr: Gobemouche bleu
- pt: Papa-moscas-azul-e-branco
- pl: Tajgówka

## Countries with the most observations

KR (361), JP (335), CN (222), RU (190), HK (106), MY (90), TW (81), TH (56), MO (36), SG (32), VN (16), PH (12)

## Summary

The blue-and-white flycatcher (Cyanoptila cyanomelana) is a migratory songbird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. The species is also known as the Japanese flycatcher. It breeds in Japan, Korea, and in parts of north eastern China and the Russian Far East. It winters in South East Asia, especially in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Sumatra and Borneo. This species has been recorded as a vagrant from the Sinharaja Rainforest in Sri Lanka in 2014.

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

## Photo

![Tajgówka](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/blue-and-white-flycatcher/medium.jpg)

Photo: Chrissy McClarren and Andy Reago · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/255536137

## Machine access

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