Pale Blue Flycatcher

Cyornis unicolor Blyth, 1843

Muscicapidae — Chats, Old World Flycatchers

Pale Blue Flycatcher Cyornis unicolor is a passerine of the Muscicapidae family that breeds in the Oriental Region, from the Himalayas in north-west India through south-east China, Java and Borneo. Blyth described it in 1843. It is a pale blue bird and is superficially like the verditer flycatcher, but it is paler blue and has greyish underparts from throat to vent, together with a broken black eye-patch. It occurs in moist lowland forest and moist montane forest.

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Muscicapidae — Chats, Old World Flycatchers
Breeding range
Oriental Region: Himalayas from nw India through se China, Java and Borneo
Pale Blue Flycatcher
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