Zappey's Flycatcher
Cyanoptila cumatilisThayer, JE; Bangs, O, 1909
English (US) Zappey's Flycatcher
The Zappey's Flycatcher (Cyanoptila cumatilis) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Muscicapidae (Chats, Old World Flycatchers, and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: breeds central China (Shaanxi eastward to Beijing, and southward to northwestern Hubei); winter range very poorly known, but recorded southward to the Thai-Malay PeninsulaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Cyanoptila cumatilis
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Near Threatened
- English (US)
- Zappey's Flycatcher
- Described by
- Thayer, JE; Bangs, O, 1909
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Thayer, JE; Bangs, O, 1909
- Type locality
- Ma-fu-ling, Hupeh, China.
- Original description
- Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 52, no.8 p.141
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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