Prakruti Parichay
MuscicapidaeCyornis

Blue-throated Blue Flycatcher

Cyomis rubeculoides

14–14 cmSmall
Beak
—
Feet
—
Crest
No crest

Summer visitor to Himalayas and resident in NE India; winters in E Himalayan foothills and south to Bangladesh, SW India and Sri Lanka. Male has blue throat (some with orange wedge! and well-defined white belly and flanks. Female has narrow and poorly defined creamy-orange throat, and orange breast well demarcated from white belly (compare with Pale-chinned and female Hill). Olive-brown head and upperparts and rufescent tail are best features from female Tickell's. Open forest and wooded areas.

Colour

OrangeWhiteBlueOlive
Average size
14 cm
Habitat
Open forest and wooded areas.
Behaviour
Summer visitor to Himalayas and resident in NE India, winters in E Himalayan foothills and south to Bangladesh, SW India and Sri Lanka.

About this bird

Summer visitor to Himalayas and resident in NE India; winters in E Himalayan foothills and south to Bangladesh, SW India and Sri Lanka. Male has blue throat (some with orange wedge! and well-defined white belly and flanks. Female has narrow and poorly defined creamy-orange throat, and orange breast well demarcated from white belly (compare with Pale-chinned and female Hill). Olive-brown head and upperparts and rufescent tail are best features from female Tickell's. Open forest and wooded areas.

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Blue-throated Blue Flycatcher is bigger than Azure Tit but smaller than European Goldfinch.

This bird

Blue-throated Blue Flycatcher

Cyomis rubeculoides

14–14 cm