Blue-and-white Flycatcher

Cyanoptila cyanomelana (Temminck, 1829)

Muscicapidae — Chats, Old World Flycatchers

Blue-and-white Flycatcher, Cyanoptila cyanomelana, is a passerine of the Muscicapidae family that breeds in Ussuriland, north-east China, the Korean Peninsula, the southern Kuril Islands and across Japan from Hokkaido to Kyushu. It spends the non-breeding season in south-east Asia, including Borneo, Java and the Philippines. The bird is best recognised by the male’s deep blue upperparts, black face and upper breast, white underparts and a white mark at the base of the outer tail feathers. Females are browner, with grey-brown head and upperparts and pale lower throat.

Order: Passeriformes
Family: Muscicapidae — Chats, Old World Flycatchers
Breeding range: Palearctic: Ussuriland (se Russia), ne China, Korean Pen., s Kuril Is. and Hokkaido to Kyushu (Japan)
Nonbreeding range: se Asia through Borneo, Java and Philippines