MUSCICAPIDAE

PALE BLUE FLYCATCHER

Location : Taiping Perak
Date :  09 January 2022

16–17.5 cm Male unicolor: Bluer (less turquoise) than Verditer, paler belly/vent.Female: Rather greyish, rufous uppertailcoverts/tail. Juvenile: Blackish tips and buff spots above, uniformly dark-scaled below. Male has blue on wings/tail. Other subspecies C.u.harterti (S Thailand, Pen Malaysia): Greyer crown, warmer elsewhere. VOICE Relatively melodious, warbling song, phrases, often start with shorter chi and end with buzzy chizz. HABITAT Broadleaved evergreen forest; up to 1,600 m. RANGE Un R Myanmar (except SW,S), Thailand (except C,SE), Pen Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, N,C Annam. V coastal E Tonkin