About the White-bellied Blue Flycatcher
The white-bellied blue flycatcher is a small passerine bird in the flycatcher family Muscicapidae. It is endemic to the Western Ghats of southwest India. Males are dark blue with a lighter shade of blue on the brow and have a greyish white belly. Females have a rufous breast, a white face and olive grey above.
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This flycatcher is about 13 centimetres (5.1 in) long and has a longish beak. It forages in the undergrowth in the shade of dense forest canopy where it makes aerial forays to capture insects. The male is indigo blue with ultramarine blue supercilium and forehead. The lores and face are dark grey. The belly is white and bordered by smoky grey wash. The female is olive brown above with whitish lores. The rufous throat and breast fades to white towards the belly. The female has a chestnut tail and can be told apart from other flycatchers like by the lack of the black and white tail pattern.
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Where it lives
When to see it
Peak activity in February · a winter visitor species across most of its range
Easily confused with
Pale Blue FlycatcherCyornis unicolorThe pale 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.
Pale-chinned FlycatcherCyornis poliogenysThe pale-chinned flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae.
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