Tickell's Blue Flycatcher

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Tickell's Blue Flycatcher
Photographed at Ranganthittu Bird Sanctuary
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Muscicapidae Genus: Cyornis Species: C. tickelliae
Binomial name
Cyornis tickelliae Blyth, 1843

The Tickell's Blue Flycatcher, Cyornis tickelliae, is a small passerine bird in the flycatcher family Muscicapidae.

This is an insectivorous species which breeds in tropical southern Asia from India and Sri Lanka to Indonesia.

The Tickell's Blue Flycatcher breeds in dry forest, scrub, bamboo and gardens. It nests in a hole in a tree or amongst rocks and lays 3-5 eggs.

The Tickell's Blue Flycatcher is 14cm long. It is an upright long-tailed flycatcher. The male is a beautiful bird which has bright blue upperparts, a red throat and breast, and the rest of the underparts white.

Females are duller, and the red is reduced in intensity and extent. Juvenile birds have scaly brown upperparts, head and breast, with just the wings and tail being blue.

[edit] References

• BirdLife International (2004). Cyornis tickelliae. 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
• Birds of India by Grimmett, Inskipp and Inskipp, ISBN 0-691-04910-6

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at Sindhrot in Vadodara District of Gujarat, India.