Tenggara Paradise-Flycatcher

Terpsiphone floris

Breeding male’s trail long streamers are almost double the length of his body. Tenggara males are very overwhelmingly white; rufous morphs are rare. Note male’s black head, triangular crest, and blue eyering. Females are rufous with a dark head, gray breast, and pale belly, sometimes with a slight tan wash. Inhabits evergreen broadleaf forest and forest edge, including secondary growth, gardens, and plantations, in lowlands and foothills. Song is a series of fast, ringing whistles; calls are nasal rasping notes. Formerly treated as a subspecies of Blyth’s Paradise-Flycatcher.

Taxonomy

Scientific name
Terpsiphone floris
Authority
Büttikofer, 1894
Order
Order not found (Latin name not recognized in current taxonomy)
Family
Monarchidae
Genus
Terpsiphone

Range and habitat

Migration
Complete migrants

Conservation

Population trend
stable

Photos

Distribution

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