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Male
Photo by Jason Bugay Reyes
Danum Valley, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia

Female
Photo by James Eaton
Poring Hot Springs, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia, June 2006

Alternative name disambiguation: White-tailed Blue Flycatcher has been used for this species but properly belongs to White-tailed Blue Flycatcher (Elminia albicauda) from Africa.

Leucoptilon concretum

Cyornis concretus

Distribution

Brunei, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Taxonomy

Formerly placed in genus Cyornis.

Subspecies

Clements recognizes these subspecies[1]:

• L. c. cyaneum: Mountains of northeast India to southern China, Myanmar and northern Thailand
• L. c. concretum: Mountains of southern Malay Peninsula and Sumatra
• L. c. everetti: Mountains of northern Borneo

Habitat

Moist lowland forests and montanes.

References

1. Clements, J. F., P. C. Rasmussen, T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, A. Spencer, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2023. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2023. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Gill, F, D Donsker, and P Rasmussen (Eds). 2024. IOC World Bird List (v 14.2). Doi 10.14344/IOC.ML.14.2. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/

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• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) White-tailed Flycatcher. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 12 December 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/White-tailed_Flycatcher

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