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Pale-chinned Flycatcher
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Pale-chinned Flycatcher
Cyornis poliogenys
The pale-chinned flycatcher (Cyornis poliogenys) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It has also been known in the past as pale-chinned blue flycatcher (on the IOC World Bird List up to 2023), and Brook's flycatcher.
It is a medium-sized flycatcher, 15.5–18 cm (6.1–7.1 in) long. Both sexes are similar, dull bluish-grey on upper parts, and with a rufous chest, a whitish throat, and white below; the males lack the intense blue colours shown by many of the other mainland Asian species in the genus Cyornis.
From the article Pale-chinned flycatcher on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Range & habitat
It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, and Nepal. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It occurs at altitudes from sea level up to 1,600 metres. There are four subspecies:
C. p. poliogenys – central Himalaya to eastern Bangladesh and southwestern Myanmar. C. p. cachariensis – eastern Himalaya to south-central China and northern Myanmar. C. p. laurentei – Yunnan, southern China. C. p. vernayi – eastern India in the Eastern Ghats. Differs from the nominate in being more strongly bluish above and orangey below.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Distribution and taxonomy”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 12860.