Verditer Flycatcher

When to see the Verditer 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 Verditer Flycatcher

The map shades 17 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 Japan, South Korea.

About the Verditer Flycatcher

The verditer flycatcher is an Old World flycatcher It is found from the Himalayas through Southeast Asia to Sumatra. This species is named after its distinctive shade of copper-sulphate blue and has a dark patch between the eyes and above the bill base. The adult males are intense blue on all areas of the body, except for the black eye-patch and grey vent. Adult females and sub-adults are lighter blue.

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Easily confused with

Nilgiri FlycatcherEumyias albicaudatusThis small and somewhat long-tailed flycatcher is about 13 cm (5.1 in). Indigo FlycatcherEumyias indigoThe indigo flycatcher is a species of bird in the Old World flycatcher family, Muscicapidae. Turquoise FlycatcherEumyias panayensisThe turquoise flycatcher, also known as the island flycatcher, is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae.