About Ficedula hyperythra (Blyth, 1843)
The snowy-browed flycatcher, scientifically named Ficedula hyperythra, is a bird species that belongs to Muscicapidae, the Old World flycatcher family. It can be found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. Fourteen subspecies of the snowy-browed flycatcher are currently recognised, with their distributions as follows: F. h. hyperythra (Blyth, 1843) occurs from the central Himalayas to central south China, and in north and central Indochina, north Thailand, and Myanmar; F. h. annamensis (Robinson & Kloss, 1919) occurs in central south Vietnam; F. h. innexa (Swinhoe, 1866) occurs in Taiwan; F. h. sumatrana (Hachisuka, 1926) occurs in montane regions of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and north Borneo; F. h. mjobergi (Hartert, EJO, 1925) occurs in montane northwest Borneo; F. h. vulcani (Robinson, 1918) occurs in montane regions of Java, Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, and Flores, which are the west and central Lesser Sunda Islands; F. h. clarae (Mayr, 1944) occurs in montane regions of Timor and Wetar, the east Lesser Sunda Islands; F. h. audacis (Hartert, EJO, 1906) occurs in the Babar Islands, the far east Lesser Sunda Islands; F. h. annalisa (Stresemann, 1931) occurs in montane north Sulawesi; F. h. jugosae (Riley, 1921) occurs in montane central, southeast, and south Sulawesi; F. h. betinabiru Rheindt, Prawiradilaga, Ashari & Suparno, 2020 occurs in Taliabu, the Sula Islands located east of Sulawesi; F. h. negroides (Stresemann, 1914) occurs in Seram, central east Moluccas; F. h. pallidipectus (Hartert, EJO, 1903) occurs in the Bacan Islands, south of Halmahera in the north Moluccas; F. h. alifura (Stresemann, 1912) occurs in Buru, central west Moluccas; F. h. daggayana (Meyer de Schauensee & duPont, 1962) occurs in Daggayan and Civoleg, Gingoog City.
