PAKHI DEKHOON PAKHI CHINOON @ 795[Observe the bird and recognize] A4Watercolour [From the Ref. photograph of Internet] The little pied flycatcher (Ficedula westermanni) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is found in the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia, ranging across Bangladesh, Bhutan,Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, Thailand, andVietnam.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moistmontane forests.
011 cm; 78 g. Small, large-headed flycatcher, male distinctively black and white, female mainly grey-brown. Male has long white supercilium from over lores.
Song in Himalayas a series of thin, high-pitched notes, pi-pi-pi-pi-pi-pi-churrr-r-r-r-r-r.
Details of diet not well known; includes small invertebrates and larvae, principally flies (Diptera), beetles and weevils (Coleoptera).
Breeding season mid-Mar to Aug; young being fed in Aug in Borneo. Nest built by both sexes, a cup of moss, plant fibres, rootlets, dry sedges.
[info:wikipedia & hbw]
