Bluethroat

Order - Passeriformes 雀形目
Family - Muscicapidae 鹟科 (Old World Flycatchers and Chats)
Genus - Cyanecula 歌鸲属

Bluethroat

Cyanecula svecica

蓝喉歌鸲

    Size : 13–15 cm; 12–25 g 

             

    Subspecies and Distribution

• Cyanecula svecica svecica (Linnaeus, 1758) – Red-spotted Bluethroat
  – Scandinavia, N, C & E Russia, NE China and NW North America (Alaska, rarely extreme NW Canada); non-breeding S Europe, and N & N tropical Africa, Arabia and S & E Asia. 
• Cyanecula svecica volgae (O. Kleinschmidt, 1907)
  – NE Ukraine and C & E European Russia; non-breeding NE Africa and SW Asia.
• Cyanecula svecica pallidogularis (Zarudny, 1897）
  – plains of Kazakhstan and Transcaspia E to Tien Shan and Pamirs; non-breeding SW Asia and N India.
• Cyanecula svecica saturatior (Sushkin, 1925)
  – C Asian mountains (Sayan, Altai, Tien Shan, Pamir); non-breeding S Asia.
• Cyanecula svecica abbotti (Richmond, 1896)
  – C & NE Afghanistan and NW Himalayas from NW Pakistan E to NW Himachal; non-breeding N India.
• Cyanecula svecica kobdensis (Tugarinov, 1929)
  – SE Siberia in S Altai, W Mongolia and NW China (Xinjiang) E to Tarim Basin; non-breeding S & SE Asia.
• Cyanecula svecica przevalskii (Tugarinov, 1929)
  – C China (C & E Qinghai to Nan Shan and E to Ala Shan and Ordos Plateau); non-breeding E China.
• Cyanecula svecica namnetum (Mayaud, 1934)
  – W France; non-breeding SW Portugal and Morocco.
• Cyanecula svecica cyanecula (Meisner, 1804) – White-spotted Bluethroat
  – Netherlands and N & E France E to Belarus and NW Ukraine; non-breeding SW & S Europe and N Africa.
• Cyanecula svecica azuricollis (Rafinesque, 1814) – Iberian Bluethroat
  – NC & NW Iberian Peninsula; non-breeding unknown, but probably W Africa S of Sahara.
• Cyanecula svecica luristanica (Ripley, 1952) – Caucasian Bluethroat
  – E Turkey, Caucasus area and NW Iran; non-breeding Arabia and NE Africa.

Date : 26 March 2014
塱原湿地, 上水区, 新界, 香港
Long Valley Wetland, Sheung Shui District, New Territories, Hong Kong