White‑tailed Blue Robin Did you see this animal?
Scientific Name : Calliope tschebaiewi
Family : Muscicapidae
Order : Passeriformes
Class : Aves
Phylum : Chordata
Habitat : Evergreen forest
Description : The White-tailed Robin is a small dark passerine with white ovals in its tail (length 17 cm, weight 27 g, wing 9.4 cm, bill 2 cm, tarsus 3 cm, tail 7.7 cm approximately). The male looks very different from the female. The male looks entirely dark blue except for the prominent white sides of its black tail. It has a shiny light blue forehead, supercilium and shoulder, and small white spots on the neck. The female looks warm olive-brown from above and rufous-brown to greyish-brown from below. It has white sides to its black tail, white streaks on its ear-coverts and chin and a buff line on the lower throat. It feeds on insects and berries. It breeds in the hills of northeast India in April-August
Distribution in Bangladesh
Other Species from Group
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Turdus boulboul
(Black‑breasted Thrush) -
Enicurus leschenaulti
(Blue Whistling Thrush) -
Turdus obscurus
(Tibetan Blackbird) -
Calliope calliope
(Chinese (White‑tailed) Rubythroat) -
Saxicola torquatus
(Desert Wheatear) -
Culicicapa ceylonensis
(Grey‑headed Canary-flycatcher) -
Niltava grandis
(Verditer Flycatcher) -
Ficedula ruficauda
(Red-breasted Flycatcher) -
Monticola cinclorhyncha
(Chestnut-bellied Rock-thrush) -
Larvivora cyane
(Bluethroat)
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: markus lilje(www.inaturalist.org/people/ markus lilje),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:Mike Nelson(www.xeno-canto.org/Mike Nelson), 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: markus lilje(www.inaturalist.org/people/ markus lilje),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:Mike Nelson(www.xeno-canto.org/Mike Nelson), bird sound copyright reserved according to www.xeno-canto.org rules; more information, please contact us.