Blue-and-white Flycatcher
Cyanoptila cyanomelana
Adult male is strikingly beautiful, with royal blue upperparts, white belly, and black face, throat, and breast; immature male has the adult’s blue wings but is brown otherwise. Female brown all over, with a smaller-headed profile than other brown flycatchers in range; young male very similar. Adult male very similar to the related Zappey's Flycatcher (no overlap in breeding range, but overlaps during migration), which lacks the black breast patch. Song is a short, sad-sounding series of whistles. Breeds in wooded lowland and submontane areas; winters in similar habitat, as well as more open areas.
Taxonomy
- Scientific name
- Cyanoptila cyanomelana
- Authority
- (Temminck, 1829)
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Muscicapidae
- Genus
- Cyanoptila
Range and habitat
- Breeding range
- PAL : Ussuriland (se Russia), ne China, Korean Pen., s Kuril Is. and Hokkaido to Kyushu (Japan)
- Non-breeding range
- se Asia through Borneo, Java and Philippines
- Migration
- Complete migrants
Conservation
- Population trend
- stable
Photos
Distribution
Bird Calls
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