White-bellied Blue Flycatcher
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The White-bellied Blue Flycatcher, Cyornis pallipes, is a small passerine
bird
in the flycatcher
family Muscicapidae.
This is an insectivorous species which breeds in the Western Ghats of southwest India
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The White-bellied Blue Flycatcher breeds in forest undergrowth and ravines. It nests on a rock ledge and lays four eggs.
The White-bellied Blue Flycatcher is 15 cm long. It is an upright long-tailed flycatcher. The male has bright blue upperparts, head and breast, and the rest of the underparts are white.
Females are completely different, with brown upperparts, a grey head and red breast. The rest of their underparts are white.
Juvenile birds have brown upperparts, scaly on the head and breast, with just the belly being whitish.
The call is a soft rambling series of trills going up and down with sibilant whistling notes interspersed.
Passerine
A passerine is a bird of the order Passeriformes, which includes more than half of all bird species. Sometimes known as perching birds or, less accurately, as songbirds, the passerines form one of the most diverse terrestrial vertebrate orders: with over 5,000 identified species, it has roughly...
bird
Bird
Birds are feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic , egg-laying, vertebrate animals. Around 10,000 living species and 188 families makes them the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Extant birds range in size from...
in the flycatcher
Old World flycatcher
The Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae is a large family of small passerine birds mostly restricted to the Old World. These are mainly small arboreal insectivores, many of which, as the name implies, take their prey on the wing.-Characteristics:...
family Muscicapidae.
This is an insectivorous species which breeds in the Western Ghats of southwest India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
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The White-bellied Blue Flycatcher breeds in forest undergrowth and ravines. It nests on a rock ledge and lays four eggs.
The White-bellied Blue Flycatcher is 15 cm long. It is an upright long-tailed flycatcher. The male has bright blue upperparts, head and breast, and the rest of the underparts are white.
Females are completely different, with brown upperparts, a grey head and red breast. The rest of their underparts are white.
Juvenile birds have brown upperparts, scaly on the head and breast, with just the belly being whitish.
The call is a soft rambling series of trills going up and down with sibilant whistling notes interspersed.