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Black-backed Forktail

Enicurus immaculatus(Hodgson, BH, 1836)

English (US) Black-backed Forktail

The Black-backed Forktail (Enicurus immaculatus) 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: rocky streams of northern India to Myanmar, southwestern China, and northwestern ThailandRange summary from AviList, in English.

Scientific name
Enicurus immaculatus
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
English (US)
Black-backed Forktail
Described by
(Hodgson, BH, 1836)

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Taxonomic history

First described as
Motacilla (Enicurus) Immaculatus
Described by
(Hodgson, BH, 1836)
Type locality
Nepal.
Original description
Asiatic Researches; or, Transactions of the Society instituted in Bengal, for enquiring into the history, the antiquities, the arts and sciences, and literature of Asia 19 p.190

Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.

See all 352 species of the family Muscicapidae