Bluethroat Did you see this animal?
Scientific Name : Larvivora cyane
Family : Muscicapidae
Order : Passeriformes
Class : Aves
Phylum : Chordata
Habitat : Bushes
Description : The Bluethroat is a small passerine whose male is visibly different from the female (length 15 cm, weight 17 g, wing 7 cm, bill 1.2 cm approximately)). The male looks brown from above and buff-whitish from below. It has a long white supercilium, white eye-ring, black lores, grey scales on ear-coverts and brownish chin. Its tail is orange-chestnut with black tips. It has blue band on the throat and black patch on the breast bordered with rufous band. Its belly is whitish and the flanks and undertail-covert are buff. The female has white and brown stripes but no blue band on its throat. It has black sub-moustachial stripe and whitish wing-bars. It feeds mainly on insects including beetles, caterpillars, ants, earthworms, etc. It breeds in May-August
Distribution in Bangladesh
Other Species from Group
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Ficedula albicilla
(Blue‑fronted Redstart) -
Phoenicurus ochruros
(Daurian Redstart) -
Tarsiger rufilatus
(White-browed Bush-robin) -
Eumyias thalassinus
(Pale Blue-flycatcher) -
Ficedula superciliaris
(Little Pied Flycatcher) -
Zoothera monticola
(Scaly Thrush) -
Ficedula parva
(Red-throated (Taiga) Flycatcher) -
Cyornis unicolor
(Pale‑chinned Flycatcher) -
Cyornis rubeculoides
(Lesser Shortwing) -
Phoenicurus auroreus
(Blue-capped Rock-thrush)
Species groups
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Bee-eaters -
Booby -
frigatebird -
phalarope -
tropicbird -
Martins and Swallows -
Crows, Drongos & allies -
Woodpeckers -
Eared Nightjars -
Ibises & Spoonbills -
Trogons -
Coucals -
Pelicans -
Darters -
Gulls -
Warblers and allies -
Flowerpeckers & Sunbirds -
Sparrows, Wagtails, Pipits a& allies -
moonbird -
Hawks & Eagles -
Snipes, Sandpipers, Plovers & allies -
Small Kingfishers -
Cisticola & Prinia -
Plovers & Lapwings -
Rails, Gallinules & Coots -
Tits -
Parrots -
Rosefinches and Buntings -
Bustards -
Grebes -
Pheasants & Partridges -
Old World flycatcher -
Starlings and Mynas -
Hornbills -
Buttonquails -
Rollers -
Bluebirds -
Crested Kingfishers -
Cormorants -
Pigeons and Doves -
Jacanas -
Typical Owl -
Finfoots &booby -
Flamingo -
Herons and Bitterns -
Treecreepers -
Nuthatch -
Barbets -
Treeswifts -
Swifts -
Crab-plovers, Coursers and Pratincoles -
Bulbuls -
Frogmouths -
Larks -
Storks -
Broadbills -
Thick-knees -
Painted-snipes -
Nightjars -
Barn-owls -
Large-billed Kingfishers -
Falcons -
Pittas -
Cranes -
Whistling-ducks -
Ducks, Geese & Swans -
Hoopoe
References:
description written by:Sharmin Rahman,Department of Zoology, Jagannath University,Dhaka;information source: Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol-26, iucnredlist.org;photo credit: Julien Renoult(www.inaturalist.org/people/ Julien Renoult),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;bird song owner:Okamoto Keita Sin(www.xeno-canto.org/Okamoto Keita Sin), bird sound copyright reserved according to www.xeno-canto.org rules; more information, please contact us.
description written by:Sharmin Rahman,Department of Zoology, Jagannath University,Dhaka;information source: Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol-26, iucnredlist.org;photo credit: Julien Renoult(www.inaturalist.org/people/ Julien Renoult),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;bird song owner:Okamoto Keita Sin(www.xeno-canto.org/Okamoto Keita Sin), bird sound copyright reserved according to www.xeno-canto.org rules; more information, please contact us.