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
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Black-backed Forktail
- Described by
- (Hodgson, BH, 1836)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic 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.
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