Zappey's Flycatcher

Cyanoptila cumatilis

Very similar to Blue-and-white Flycatcher (breeding grounds do not overlap). Females and juveniles are essentially unidentifiable while on migration unless seen with an adult male, which is radiant, electric blue above and white below, lacking the contrasting black throat and breast of Blue-and-white, instead transitioning more smoothly from blue to white. Pale gray smudging on the flanks, while more difficult to see, can also serve to differentiate the two. Song is a thrush-like series of bright, slightly slurred warbles and whistles. Breeds in submontane mixed forests in northern China; wintering grounds little-known, but presumably at a similar altitudinal range in evergreen forests.

分类信息

学名
Cyanoptila cumatilis
命名信息
Thayer & Bangs, 1909
Passeriformes
Muscicapidae
Cyanoptila

分布与栖息地

繁殖区
PAL : c, ec China
非繁殖区
to Malay Pen., Sumatra and Java
迁徙
Complete migrants

保护状况

种群趋势
declining

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分布

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