Celestial Monarch

When to see the Celestial Monarch

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 7 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Celestial Monarch

The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Celestial Monarch

The celestial monarch is a species of bird in the family Monarchidae, and one of the most attractive of all the monarch flycatchers. It is identified as a turquoise blue bird with a long and spectacular cerulean blue crest and large greenish-yellow wattle. It is endemic to the Philippines with its extant range being in Luzon, Samar, Mindanao Tawi-Tawi and Basilan and it being possibly extinct on Negros and Sibuyan Island.Its natural habitat is tropical moist lowland forests up to 750 masl. There is an unverified report of this bird in 2024 in Leyte. It is one of the most sought after birds by birdwatchers in the Philippines and in the world.

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Easily confused with

Short-crested MonarchHypothymis helenaeThe short-crested monarch is a species of bird in the family Monarchidae and one of the most attractive of all the monarch flycatchers. Pale-blue MonarchHypothymis puellaThe pale-blue monarch is a small passerine bird in the family Monarchidae endemic to eastern Indonesia. Black-naped MonarchHypothymis azureaThe adult male black-naped monarch is about 16 cm long, and is mainly pale azure blue apart from a whitish lower belly.