Siberian blue robin [SEP] parent taxon
Siberian blue robin
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". It and similar small European species are often called chats. 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. The genus name
RAF ranks.
By the end of World War II, WAAF enrolment had declined and the effect of demobilisation was to take the vast majority out of the service. The remainder, now only several hundred strong, was renamed the Women's Royal Air Force on 1 February 1949.
Ranks.
Initially, the WAAF used the ATS ranking system, although the director held the rank of "Senior Controller" (equivalent to Brigadier in the British Army, Air Commodore in the RAF) instead of "Chief Controller"