ABSTRACT Traditionally, the Red-breasted Flycatcher Ficedula parva has been treated as a polytypic species with two subspecies: the western parva and the eastern albicilla.These taxa show clear differences in morphology and vocalisations and are diagnosably distinct, probably in both sexes and at all ages. There are striking differences in moult patterns between the two forms, and DNA-sequence dat

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