Pale Blue Flycatcher

How to identify

Field marks

1. Rather pale blue
2. Grayish underparts from throat to beneath the tail
3. Broken black eye patch

Similar species

Verditer Flycatcher

Superficially similar and often found in the same places; Pale Blue Flycatcher is paler blue, with grayish underparts from the throat to beneath the tail and a broken black eye patch.

Where and when it's recorded

Busiest months: March · Most records: Thailand, Malaysia, India

Pale Blue Flycatcher has been recorded at 224 of the 8,276 birding hotspots we track, in 12 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Doi Pha Hom Pok NP – Doi Lang (W), AKA Doi San JuThailand399 records
2. Gunung Panti Recreational Forest – Panti Bird Sanctuary and North AreaMalaysia323 records
3. Danum Valley Borneo Rainforest LodgeMalaysia170 records

Countries and regions with the most records

ThailandMalaysiaIndiaChinaIndonesiaNepalVietnamBhutan

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 pale blue flycatcher (Cyornis unicolor) is a bird in the family Muscicapidae. The species was first described by Edward Blyth in 1843.

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