Blue-throated blue flycatcher

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Blue-throated blue flycatcher
Cyornis rubeculoides rubeculoides from
West Sikkim, India
.

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Muscicapidae
Genus: Cyornis
Species:
C. rubeculoides
Binomial name
Cyornis rubeculoides
(Vigors, 1831)

The blue-throated blue flycatcher (Cyornis rubeculoides) is a small

Indian Subcontinent, all through the Himalayas, the plains and Western Ghats of India in the cold months, and also extends eastwards into Bangladesh, and to Arakan and the Tenasserim Hills in Myanmar
.

Description

Adult males have blue throats and orange breasts with a well defined white belly and flanks. Females have an olive head and upperparts with a poorly defined creamy-orange chest and a white belly.[2]

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