Mangrove Blue Flycatcher

When to see the Mangrove Blue Flycatcher

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Mangrove Blue Flycatcher

The map shades 6 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 Mangrove Blue Flycatcher

The mangrove blue flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is native to Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Singapore, and Thailand. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical mangrove forests. Clements splits the Kalao blue flycatcher, Cyornis kalaoensis into a distinct species. The IOC still lists it as a subspecies of the mangrove blue flycatcher.

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Easily confused with

Malaysian Blue FlycatcherCyornis turcosusThe Malaysian blue flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. Chinese Blue FlycatcherCyornis glaucicomansThe Chinese blue flycatcher is a small passerine bird in the flycatcher family, Muscicapidae. Fulvous-chested Jungle FlycatcherCyornis olivaceusThe fulvous-chested jungle flycatcher is a species of bird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.