White-tailed Flycatcher (Cyornis concretus)

Other Names (World)
White-tailed Flycatcher, White-tailed Blue-Flycatcher, Short-tailed Blue-flycatcher

Family
Muscicapidae (Old World Flycatchers And Chats)

Size
15 - 19 cm

First Described (Guide)
(M�ller, 1835)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland and montane moist forest, moist and high altitude shrubland.

Range (Guide)

Brunei Darussalam, China (mainland), India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (20)...)

White-tailed Flycatcher (Cyornis concretus) [XC428471]
by Jelle Scharringa from Borneo Rainforest Lodge, Danum Valley, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia (song)

White-tailed Flycatcher (Cyornis concretus) [XC632975]
by Craig Robson from Jeypore, Dibrugarh, Assam, India (uncertain)

Subspecies
Somewhat aberrant flycatcher. In the past placed in genus Niltava (even when most current congeners were not), and has been suggested as meriting a genus of its own.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

cyaneus (Hume, 1877) - Extreme north-eastern India (eastern Arunachal Pradesh, southern Assam, eastern Meghalaya, Mizoram), north-western and southern Myanmar (Tenasserim), southern China (southern Yunnan), western and southern Thailand, northern Laos and northern Vietnam (Tonkin south to central Annam).
concretus (M�ller, 1835) - Malay Peninsula and western Sumatra.
everetti (Sharpe, 1890) - Borneo.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for White-tailed Flycatcher (Cyornis concretus) - 10 files

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