Blue-throated Flycatcher

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Blue-thorated Flycatcher
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Muscicapidae
Genus: Cyornis
Species: C. rubeculoides
Binomial name
Cyornis rubeculoides
(Vigors, 1831)

The Blue-throated Flycatcher (Cyornis rubeculoides) is a small passerine bird in the flycatcher family Muscicapidae. It resembles Cyornis tickelliae but easily separated by the blue throat. The habitat of this species is a thicker forest than other species of flycatchers. The Blue-Throated Flycatcher is found all through the Himalayas, the plains of India in the cold months, and also extends into Arkan and Tenasserim.

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