Taiwan Vivid Niltava

When to see the Taiwan Vivid Niltava

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is April, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Taiwan Vivid Niltava

The map shades 1 country with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Japan.

About the Taiwan Vivid Niltava

The Taiwan vivid niltava or small vivid niltava is a bird in the family Muscicapidae. The species was first described by Robert Swinhoe in 1864. It is endemic to Taiwan. The Chinese vivid niltava of the Asian mainland, which is larger in size, was formerly considered conspecific. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

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Easily confused with

Small NiltavaNiltava macgrigoriaeThe small niltava is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae, native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Rufous-bellied NiltavaNiltava sundaraThe rufous-bellied niltava is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. Large NiltavaNiltava grandisThe large niltava is a species of bird in the Old world flycatcher family Muscicapidae.