Slaty-backed flycatcher

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| image =Slaty-backed Flycatcher.jpg

| genus = Ficedula

| species = erithacus

| authority = (Blyth, 1861)

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=Ficedula erithacus |volume=2016 |page=e.T22709334A94203430 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22709334A94203430.en |access-date=16 November 2021}}

| synonyms = * Ficedula sordida Godwin-Austen, 1874

• Ficedula hodgsonii {{cite journal | last1=Clement | first1=P. | last2=de Juana | first2=E. | year=2020 | title=Slaty-backed Flycatcher (Ficedula erithacus) | editor1-last=del Hoyo | editor1-first=J. | editor2-last=Elliott | editor2-first=A. | editor3-last=Sargatal | editor3-first=J. | editor4-last=Christie | editor4-first=D.A. | editor5-last=de Juana | editor5-first=E. | journal=Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive | publisher=Lynx Edicions | doi=10.2173/bow.slbfly1.01 | s2cid=229149765 | url=https://www.hbw.com/node/59054 | access-date=30 March 2020 | url-access=subscription }}

(J. Verreaux, 1871){{Citation needed|date=December 2017}}

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The slaty-backed flycatcher (Ficedula erithacus) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae.

It is native to the eastern Himalayas, central China, Yunnan ; it winters to northern Indochina. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

It is omnivorous.Singh, Vaibhav Kumar, and Parul Bhatnagar. "Checklist of birds of Rudraprayag Forest Division, Uttarakhand." ZOO'S PRINT 36.8 (2021): 21-32.