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Adult male large blue flycatchers' exhibit striking features, including a cold, pale blue forehead. Their lores, cheeks, and some of the ear-coverts are jet black, contrasting with a deep blue cap on their head and dark blue feathers on the wings and tail with a subtle purplish tinge. Males display a vibrant orange-rufous throat and chin, which extends to the rear flanks and mid-belly, with the lower underparts being whitish. The bill is black, and the legs vary in color from pale flesh-pink to pale pinkish gray or light horn-brown.
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When to see the Large Blue Flycatcher
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 6 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is April, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Large Blue Flycatcher
The map shades 2 countries with regular records, and 2 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 Myanmar (Burma), Cambodia.
About the Large Blue Flycatcher
The large blue flycatcher is a medium-sized bird species characterized by distinctive sexual dimorphism along with most others of the Flycatcher family. This species of bird is in the family Muscicapidae. It is found in the eastern Himalayas, from Nepal to Bangladesh. It winters in the northern Malay Peninsula.
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Easily confused with
Sunda Blue FlycatcherCyornis caerulatusThe Sunda blue flycatcher, also known as the large-billed blue-flycatcher, is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae.
Sulawesi Blue FlycatcherCyornis omissusThe Sulawesi blue flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae.
Dayak Blue FlycatcherCyornis montanusThe Dayak blue flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae.
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