Sri Lanka Whistling Thrush - BirdForum Opus

Alternative name: Ceylon Whistling-Thrush

Myophonus blighi

Male
Photo by firecrest15
Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka, March 2010

Identification

20cm

• Dark blue plumage
• Head and back darker
• Bright blue shoulder patches, supercilium and forehead
  

Female

• Brown upperparts
• Chestnut underparts
• Blue shoulder patch

Female
Photo by Tanager
Horton Plains, Sri Lanka

Distribution

Mountain ravines of Sri Lanka.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species^[1].

Habitat

Montane riverside forests.

Behaviour

Diet

The diet includes insects, frogs, earthworms and berries.

Breeding

It nests in bushes or similar, laying 1 or 2 eggs in a neat cup-shaped nest on a ledge near water.

References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Wikipedia

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Sri Lanka Whistling Thrush. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 9 November 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Sri_Lanka_Whistling_Thrush

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