Siberian blue robin

Luscinia cyanea (lapsus)Luscinia cyane The Siberian blue robin (Larvivora cyane) is a small passerine bird that was formerly classified as a member of the thrush family, Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to belong to the Old World flycatcher family, Muscicapidae.

Recent research suggests that this species and some other East Asian members of Luscinia should be classified in a new genus, together with the Japanese and Ryūkyū robins.

[3] This bird is a migratory insectivorous species breeding in the eastern Palearctic from Siberia and northern Mongolia, northeastern China, Korea and across to Japan.

The breeding habitat is coniferous forest with dense undergrowth, often beside rivers or at woodland edges.

A large molecular phylogenetic study published in 2010 found that Luscinia was not monophyletic.