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White-bellied Blue Flycatcher

Conservation status

Least Concern

Population Trend

Decreasing

Alternate Names

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Native Habitat

Forests

Diet

Insects

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White-bellied Blue Flycatcher

Cyornis pallidipes

Medium-sized and fairly long-billed forest flycatcher. Male is almost entirely indigo-blue, but with paler blue band across forehead to over eye, black face and chin, black flight-feathers, and white belly to undertail-coverts; iris dark; bill black; legs pinkish-flesh to grey.

Regional Names
  • Gujarati:
    સફેદપેટ ભૂરો માખીમાર
  • Malayalam:
    കാട്ടുനീലി
  • Marathi:
    पांढर्‍या पोटाचा नर्तक, पांढर्‍या पोटाचा निळा माशीमार
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Taxanomy

PASSERIFORMES
MUSCICAPIDAE
Cyornis pallidipes

Quick Facts
  • It is endemic to Western Ghats of India.