Black-backed forktail

Black-backed forktail
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Muscicapidae
Genus: Enicurus
Species: E. immaculatus
Binomial name
Enicurus immaculatus
(Hodgson, 1836)

The black-backed forktail (Enicurus immaculatus), a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family, found in the Indian subcontinent and in some adjoining regions of Southeast Asia. It ranges across Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Thailand.

Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

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