Blue-throated Blue Flycatcher

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When to see the Blue-throated Blue Flycatcher

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is April, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Blue-throated Blue Flycatcher

The map shades 10 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Vietnam.

About the Blue-throated Blue Flycatcher

The blue-throated blue flycatcher is a small passerine bird in the flycatcher family, Muscicapidae. It resembles Cyornis tickelliae but easily separated by the blue throat. The habitat of this species is a thicker forest than other species of flycatchers. The blue-throated flycatcher is found in much of the 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.

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Easily confused with

Hainan Blue FlycatcherCyornis hainanusThe Hainan blue flycatcher is a bird in the family Muscicapidae. Hill Blue FlycatcherCyornis whiteiThe hill blue flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. White-bellied Blue FlycatcherCyornis pallidipesThis flycatcher is about 13 centimetres (5.1 in) long and has a longish beak.

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