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Nicobar Jungle Flycatcher
Cyornis nicobaricus (Richmond, 1902)
Muscicapidae — Chats, Old World Flycatchers
Nicobar Jungle Flycatcher, Cyornis nicobaricus, is a bird of the Nicobar Islands in the Oriental Region, where it breeds in the southern Nicobar Islands. It belongs to the Muscicapidae family of chats and Old World flycatchers. Its home is in moist lowland forest and mangrove forest. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of the brown-chested jungle flycatcher, and it was once placed in the genus Rhinomyias before being transferred to Cyornis after a 2010 molecular study.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Muscicapidae — Chats, Old World Flycatchers
- Breeding range
- Oriental Region: s Nicobar Is.
