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What the Tickell's Blue Flycatcher sounds like
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Tickell's blue flycatcher is about 11–12 cm long. It sits upright and forages mainly in the overgrowth. The male's upper parts are bright blue, its throat and breast are red, and the rest of the underparts are white. The female is duller blue with a brighter blue brow, shoulder, rump, and tail. It hybridizes with the pale-chinned blue flycatcher (Cyornis poliogenys) in the Eastern Ghats of India and these hybrids have sometimes been treated as a subspecies vernayi.
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When to see the Tickell's Blue Flycatcher
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Where to see the Tickell's Blue Flycatcher
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About the Tickell's Blue Flycatcher
Tickell's blue flycatcher is a small passerine bird in the flycatcher family. This is an insectivorous species which breeds in tropical Asia, from the Indian subcontinent eastwards to Bangladesh and western Myanmar. The Indochinese blue flycatcher was formerly considered conspecific. They are blue on the upperparts and the throat and breast are rufous. They are found in dense scrub to forest habitats. The name commemorates the wife of the British ornithologist Samuel Tickell who collected in India and Burma.
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Easily confused with
Blue-throated Blue FlycatcherCyornis rubeculoidesAdult males have blue throats and orange breasts with a well defined white belly and flanks.
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.
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