Broad-billed Flycatcher

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Broad-billed Flycatcher
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Monarchidae
Genus: Myiagra
Species: M. ruficollis
Binomial name
Myiagra ruficollis
(Vieillot, 1818)

The Broad-billed Flycatcher (Myiagra ruficollis) is a species of bird in the Monarchidae family. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Taxonomy

The subspecies M. r. fulviventris is sometimes considered to be a full species, the Tanimbar Flycatcher (Myiagra fulviventris Sclater, PL, 1883).

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