INDIAN FLYCATCHERS@11
PAKHI DEKHOON PAKHI CHINOON @ 799[Observe the bird and recognize] A4Watercolour [From the Ref. photograph of Internet] The pale blue flycatcher (Cyornis unicolor) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae.
It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, andVietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
It is superficially similar in appearance to the verditer flycatcher, but is paler blue, with greyish underparts from throat to vent, and a discontinuous black eye-patch. Both birds can often be found in the same locale.
16518 cm; 1619 g. Medium-sized to large, slim and long-tailed, blue (male) or brown-grey (female) flycatcher. Male nominate race is almost entirely cobalt-blue coloured.
Food items not well known, but include small invertebrates.
Three subspecies recognized.
[info:Wikipedia & hbw]