Blue-throated blue flycatcher

The blue-throated blue flycatcher (Cyornis rubeculoides) is a small passerine bird in the flycatcher family, Muscicapidae. It resembles Cyornis tickelliae but easily separated by the blue throat. The habitat of this species is a thicker forest than other species of flycatchers. The blue-throated flycatcher is found in much of the Indian Subcontinent, all through the Himalayas, the plains and Western Ghats of India in the cold months, and also extends eastwards into Bangladesh, and to Arakan and the Tenasserim Hills in Myanmar.

See also: Bluethroat

Blue-throated blue flycatcher
Cyornis rubeculoides rubeculoides from Khangchendzonga National Park, West Sikkim, India.
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Muscicapidae
Genus:	Cyornis
Species:	C. rubeculoides
Binomial name
Cyornis rubeculoides (Vigors, 1831)

Description

Adult males have blue throats and orange breasts with a well defined white belly and flanks. Females have an olive head and upperparts with a poorly defined creamy-orange chest and a white belly.[2]

Gallery

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  Male Cyornis rubeculoides rubeculoides from Thattekad Bird Sanctuary, Kerala, India.

References

1. BirdLife International. 2017. Cyornis rubeculoides (amended version of 2016 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T103761873A111163294. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-1.RLTS.T103761873A111163294.en. Downloaded on 27 May 2018.
2. Birds of the Indian Subcontinent. Helm. 2016.