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.
Identification
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
Genus: Terpsiphone; Family: Monarchidae; Order: Passeriformes.
- Scientific name
- Terpsiphone floris
- Authority
- Büttikofer, 1894
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Monarchidae
- Genus
- Terpsiphone
Range and habitat
- Migration
- Complete migrants
Behavior
Migration pattern: Complete migrants.
Conservation
Population trend: stable.
- Population trend
- stable
Photos
Distribution
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