Indian Paradise Flycatcher

How to identify

Field marks

1. Adult has glossy black head and black crest
2. Adult bill black and stout
3. Adult male has 2 very long central tail feathers
4. Female has rufous back and grayish throat and underparts

Male, female and young

Adult male has mainly bright rufous or white upperparts and a long tail; female has a short tail and rufous back.

Where and when it's recorded

Indian Paradise Flycatcher has been recorded at 318 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 13 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. GKVK CampusIndia2,669 records
2. Valley SchoolIndia1,995 records
3. Nandi HillsIndia1,420 records

Countries and regions with the most records

IndiaSri LankaNepalPakistanBangladeshTajikistanUnited Arab EmiratesSingapore

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The Indian paradise flycatcher (Terpsiphone paradisi) is a medium-sized passerine bird in the monarch flycatcher family, Monarchidae. As the global population is considered stable, it has been listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List since 2004. It is native to the Indian subcontinent, with resident and breeding populations in most of Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka, as well as parts of Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.

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