Ultramarine Flycatcher

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Ultramarine Flycatcher
Ultramarine Flycatcher Ficedula superciliaris aestigma
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Muscicapidae Genus: Ficedula Species: F. superciliaris
Binomial name
Ficedula superciliaris (Jerdon, 1840)

The Ultramarine Flycatcher Ficedula superciliaris breeds in the foothills of the Himalayas and winters in southern India.

The race that breeds in the Western Himalayas has a distinctive white supercilium and white bases to the outer tail feathers. The race aestigma from the Eastern Himalayas lacks a distinct supercilium and the white bases to the outer tail feathers. The populations from the South Assam hills sometimes referred to as the race cleta completely lack any supercilium. The amount of white on the brow and tail show clinal variation from West to East along the Himalayan foothills.

They normally choose dark spaces below the canopy in dense forest to forage for insects.

[edit] References

• BirdLife International (2004). Ficedula superciliaris. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 12 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern