Firethroat Did you see this animal?
Scientific Name : Luscinia svecica
Family : Muscicapidae
Order : Passeriformes
Class : Aves
Phylum : Chordata
Habitat : Haors
Description : The Firethroat is a bluish-slate or olive-brown passerine with a short tail (length 15 cm, wing 7 cm, bill 1.7 cm, tarsus 2.7 cm, tail 5 cm approximately). In the breeding season, the male has bluish-slaty upperpart, blackish tail and buff washed white underpart. Its lores, ear-coverts, cheek, sides of the neck and the vicinity of the eyes are black. It has brownish flanks and whitish patches on the edges of the neck. It has flame-orange coloured chin, throat and breast with black borders on its sides. It has blackish bill and black or brown irises. The non-breeding male has buffish underparts. The female has olive-brown upperpart, brown tail, orange-buff underparts and rufous cast to the undertail-covert. It has pale-ochraceous throat, ochraceous-brown breast and flanks. Its white belly is washed with ochraceous. It feeds mainly on insects. It breeds in the summer.
Distribution in Bangladesh
Other Species from Group
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Niltava grandis
(Verditer Flycatcher) -
Calliope calliope
(Chinese (White‑tailed) Rubythroat) -
Larvivora brunnea
(Siberian Blue Robin) -
Ficedula ruficauda
(Red-breasted Flycatcher) -
Cyornis rubeculoides
(Lesser Shortwing) -
Ficedula erithacus
(Slaty-blue Flycatcher) -
Cyornis unicolor
(Pale‑chinned Flycatcher) -
Calliope tschebaiewi
(White‑tailed Blue Robin) -
Enicurus immaculatus
(White‑crowned Forktail) -
Turdus dissimilis
(Tickell's Thrush)
Species groups
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Bee-eaters -
Booby -
frigatebird -
phalarope -
tropicbird -
Martins and Swallows -
Crows, Drongos & allies -
Woodpeckers -
Eared Nightjars -
Ibises & Spoonbills -
Trogons -
Coucals -
Pelicans -
Darters -
Gulls -
Warblers and allies -
Flowerpeckers & Sunbirds -
Sparrows, Wagtails, Pipits a& allies -
moonbird -
Hawks & Eagles -
Snipes, Sandpipers, Plovers & allies -
Small Kingfishers -
Cisticola & Prinia -
Plovers & Lapwings -
Rails, Gallinules & Coots -
Tits -
Parrots -
Rosefinches and Buntings -
Bustards -
Grebes -
Pheasants & Partridges -
Old World flycatcher -
Starlings and Mynas -
Hornbills -
Buttonquails -
Rollers -
Bluebirds -
Crested Kingfishers -
Cormorants -
Pigeons and Doves -
Jacanas -
Typical Owl -
Finfoots &booby -
Flamingo -
Herons and Bitterns -
Treecreepers -
Nuthatch
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Barbets -
Treeswifts -
Swifts -
Crab-plovers, Coursers and Pratincoles -
Bulbuls -
Frogmouths
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Larks -
Storks -
Broadbills -
Thick-knees -
Painted-snipes -
Nightjars -
Barn-owls -
Large-billed Kingfishers -
Falcons -
Pittas -
Cranes -
Whistling-ducks -
Ducks, Geese & Swans -
Hoopoe
References:
description written by:Sharmin Rahman,Department of Zoology, Jagannath University,Dhaka;information source: Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol-26, iucnredlist.org;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;photo credit: Tatyana Zarubo (www.inaturalist.org/people/Tatyana Zarubo ),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;more information, please contact us.
description written by:Sharmin Rahman,Department of Zoology, Jagannath University,Dhaka;information source: Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol-26, iucnredlist.org;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;photo credit: Tatyana Zarubo (www.inaturalist.org/people/Tatyana Zarubo ),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;more information, please contact us.