Pale‑chinned Flycatcher Did you see this animal?
Scientific Name : Cyornis unicolor
Family : Muscicapidae
Order : Passeriformes
Class : Aves
Phylum : Chordata
Habitat : Evergreen forest
Description : Pale-chinned Blue Flycatcher is an olive-brown passerine (length 14 cm, wing 7.5 cm, bill 1.6 cm, tarsus 1.8 cm, tail 6 cm approximately). The adult looks olive-brown from above and creamyorange from below. Its crown and sides of the head are pale, and the tail is rufous-brown. It has pale-buffish lores and eye-ring, buff throat, pale-creamy breast and flanks, white lower belly and creamy undertail-covert. It has brown irises, black bill, pale greyish-pink to pale-fleshy legs and feet. The male and the female look alike. It feeds only on insects. It breeds in April-June.
Distribution in Bangladesh
Other Species from Group
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Saxicola insignis
(White-throated (Hodgson’s) Bushchat) -
Tarsiger hyperythrus
(Himalayan (Orange-flanked) Bush-robin) -
Saxicola torquatus
(Desert Wheatear) -
Monticola cinclorhyncha
(Chestnut-bellied Rock-thrush) -
Muscicapa sibirica
(Ferruginous Flycatcher) -
Saxicola jerdoni
(Grey Bushchat) -
Saxicola leucurus
(Common Stonechat) -
Ficedula erithacus
(Slaty-blue Flycatcher) -
Zoothera mollissima/salimalii
(Dark‑sided Thrush) -
Ficedula westermanni
(Rusty-tailed Flycatcher)
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: Tan Kok Hui (www.inaturalist.org/people/ Tan Kok Hui ),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: Tan Kok Hui (www.inaturalist.org/people/ Tan Kok Hui ),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.