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 LC    Hill Blue-Flycatcher* Id (Atlas):
    Cyornis banyumas

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Hill Blue-Flycatcher, Large Blue-flycatcher (magnirostris), Javan Blue Flycatcher, Hill Blue Flycatcher

Family
Muscicapidae (Old World Flycatchers And Chats)

Size
14 - 15.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Horsfield, 1821)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland and montane moist forest.

Range (Guide)
Brunei Darussalam (B) (NB), Cambodia (B) (NB), China (mainland) (B) (NB), India (NB), Indonesia (B) (NB), Laos (B) (NB), Malaysia (B) (NB), Myanmar (B) (NB), Thailand (B) (NB), Vietnam (B) (NB).

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 (2011).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (9)...)

 
Javan Blue Flycatcher (Cyornis banyumas) [XC215512]
     by Paulo Alves from , Indonesia (call, song)

 
Javan Blue Flycatcher (Cyornis banyumas) [XC284675]
     by Swiss Winnasis from , Indonesia (song)

Subspecies
Cyornis banyumas (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) has been split into Hill Blue-Flycatcher (Cyornis banyumas) and Large Blue-Flycatcher (Cyornis magnirostris) following Renner et al. (2009) who point out parapatric (and possibly sympatric) breeding between whitei of Hill Blue-Flycatcher (Cyornis banyumas) and Large Blue-Flycatcher (Cyornis magnirostris), strong migratory habit in magnirostris which is weak or absent in banyumas and a number of morphological differences between the two taxa.

Probably forms a superspecies with Palawan Blue-Flycatcher (Cyornis lemprieri), and has been considered conspecific; songs rather similar, and separation based mainly on plumage. Some evidence of hybridization with Tickell's Blue-Flycatcher (Cyornis tickelliae) in Malay Peninsula. Recently suggested that subspecies magnirostris merits treatment as a separate species on basis of bill size, colour of male upperparts and long primary projection.

The following 10 subspecies are recognised:

  • magnirostris Blyth, 1849   -  Breeds eastern Himalayas (Arunachal Pradesh). Non-breeding central and southern Myanmar, southern Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Large Blue-Flycatcher (Cyornis magnirostris).
  • whitei Harington, 1908   -  Northern and eastern Myanmar, south-central China (southern Sichuan, north-western and south-western Yunnan, Guizhou), northern Thailand, northern and central Laos and northern Vietnam (western Tonkin, northern Annam).
  • lekhakuni (Deignan, 1956)   -  Hills of southern Thailand.
  • deignani Meyer de Schauensee, 1939   -  South-eastern Thailand.
  • coerulifrons Stuart Baker, 1918   -  Southern Thailand and northern and central Peninsular Malaysia.
  • ligus (Deignan, 1947)   -  Western Java.
  • banyumas (Horsfield, 1821)   -  Central and eastern Java.
  • coeruleatus (Büttikofer, 1900)   -  Borneo.
  • mardii (Hoogerwerf, 1962)   -  Panaitan I. (off western Java).
  • montanus Robinson & Kinnear, 1928   -  Borneo.



References
See References.


Files:
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