Pale Blue Flycatcher

Pale Blue Flycatcher
At IISc Bangalore, India
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Muscicapidae
Genus: Cyornis
Species: C. unicolor
Binomial name
Cyornis unicolor
Blyth, 1843
Synonyms[2]

Cyornis cyanopolia Blyth, 1870

The Pale Blue Flycatcher (Cyornis unicolor) is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family.

It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.[1]

It is superficially similar in appearance to the Verditer Flycatcher, but is paler blue, with greyish underparts from throat to vent, and a discontinuous black eye-patch. Both birds can often be found in the same locale.

References

  1. ^ a b BirdLife International 2004. Cyornis unicolor. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 25 July 2007.
  2. ^ Mlíkovský, Jiří (4 August 2011). "Nomenclatural notes on Cyornis and Rhinomyias flycatchers (Aves: Muscicapidae) of South-East Asia". Zootaxa (2985): 64–68.