Pale Blue-flycatcher Did you see this animal?
Scientific Name : Eumyias thalassinus
Family : Muscicapidae
Order : Passeriformes
Class : Aves
Phylum : Chordata
Habitat : Evergreen forest
Description : The Pale Blue Flycatcher is a small bird with a remarkable sexual dimorphism (length 16 cm, weight 21 g, wing 8 cm, bill 1.8 cm, tarsus 1.8 cm, tail 7 cm approximately). The adult male looks pale blue from above and greyish-blue from below. Its forehead, supercilium and shoulders are shining blue and the tail is deep blue. It has dusky lores, pale blue throat, blue breast and whitish belly.The adult female is olive-brown from above and greyish from below. It has brown wings, rufous-brown uppertail-coverts and tail, greyish-white centre of the belly and dark buff undertail- covert. It has pale lores and eye-ring. It feeds chiefly on insects. It breeds in April-June.
Distribution in Bangladesh
Other Species from Group
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Turdus maximus
(White‑collared Blackbird) -
Tarsiger indicus
(Slaty‑backed Forktail) -
Phoenicurus auroreus
(Blue-capped Rock-thrush) -
Saxicola leucurus
(Common Stonechat) -
Turdus unicolor
(Eyebrowed Thrush) -
Ficedula albicilla
(Blue‑fronted Redstart) -
Turdus albocinctus
(Dusky Thrush) -
Enicurus leschenaulti
(Blue Whistling Thrush) -
Ficedula superciliaris
(Little Pied Flycatcher) -
Ficedula ruficauda
(Red-breasted 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;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;photo credit: Tan Kok Hui (www.inaturalist.org/people/Tan Kok Hui ),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;Jani Sleutelmore 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;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;photo credit: Tan Kok Hui (www.inaturalist.org/people/Tan Kok Hui ),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;Jani Sleutelmore information, please contact us.