Chinese Blue Flycatcher
A species of Blue-flycatchers and Allied Jungle-flycatchers Scientific name : Cyornis glaucicomans Genus : Blue-flycatchers and Allied Jungle-flycatchers
Chinese Blue Flycatcher, A species of Blue-flycatchers and Allied Jungle-flycatchers
Botanical name: Cyornis glaucicomans
Genus: Blue-flycatchers and Allied Jungle-flycatchers
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Description
Photo By Ayuwat Jearwattanakanok
Description
The Chinese blue flycatcher (Cyornis glaucicomans) is a small passerine bird in the flycatcher family, Muscicapidae. The Chinese blue flycatcher is found in southern China and the Malay Peninsula. It previously was considered a subspecies of the blue-throated blue flycatcher.
Feeding Habits
Chinese Blue Flycatcher predominantly consumes small invertebrates, actively foraging in low vegetation or near forest streams, often solo or in pairs. Chinese Blue Flycatcher employs a hunting approach similar to C. rubeculoides, pursuing insects in aeronautical maneuvers.
Habitat
The chinese Blue Flycatcher typically resides in habitats with dense undergrowth and ravines, predominately within dry broadleaf evergreen forests, mixed deciduous forests, and secondary forests. It is also found in bamboo thickets and well-wooded gardens across broader Southeast Asia, favoring similar environments in its wintering areas.
Dite type
Insectivorous
Photo By Ayuwat Jearwattanakanok
Scientific Classification
Phylum
Chordates Class
Birds Order
Perching birds Family
Old world flycatchers Species
Chinese Blue Flycatcher