White-Bellied Blue Flycatcher is an Indian bird that bears a scientific name "Cyornis pallipes" are widely spread in the regions of Maharashtra, Mumbai, Goa, Karnataka and the entire part of Western Ghats Mountain Range in India.
Category of White-Bellied Blue Flycatcher
White-Bellied Blue Flycatcher is a small passerine bird in the flycatcher family of Muscicapidae.
Concentration of White-Bellied Blue Flycatcher
White-Bellied Blue Flycatcher is endemic to the Western Ghats Mountain Range in India (including the Nilgiris Mountain Range) of southwest India.
Colours of White-Bellied Blue Flycatcher
The male White-Bellied Blue Flycatchers are dark blue with a lighter shade of blue on the brow and have a greyish white belly. The female White-Bellied Blue Flycatchers have a rufous breast, a white face and olive grey above.
Structure of White-Bellied Blue Flycatcher
White-Bellied Blue Flycatcher is about 13 centimetres (5.1 in) long and has a longish beak. It forages in the undergrowth in the shade of dense forest canopy where it makes aerial forays to capture insects. The male is indigo blue with ultramarine blue supercilium and forehead. The lores and face are dark grey. The belly is white and bordered by smoky grey wash. The female is olive brown above with whitish lores. The rufous throat and breast fades to white towards the belly. The female has a chestnut tail and can be told apart from other flycatchers like by the lack of the black and white tail pattern.
Habitat of White-Bellied Blue Flycatcher
White-Bellied Blue Flycatcher occurs in dense forest and sholas south from Mahabaleshwar through the Western Ghats Mountain Range in India, extending into the Nilgiris Mountain Range and the Biligirirangan Hills, down to southern Tamil Nadu and Kerala. It is found mainly in the hill forests from the foothills to about 1700 m in the Nilgiris.
Behaviours of White-Bellied Blue Flycatcher
White-Bellied Blue Flycatcher tends to be quiet and inactive, foraging mainly in the dark shade below the forest canopy. They have a very low song that can be heard only at close quarters.
Calls of White-Bellied Blue Flycatcher
The song of White-Bellied Blue Flycatcher is a rambling series of whistling notes interspersed with clicks and squeaks. They are usually seen singly or in pairs and are often found to join mixed-species foraging flocks.
Breeding Season of White-Bellied Blue Flycatcher
The breeding season of White-Bellied Blue Flycatcher is from February to September, mainly during the monsoon.
Nests of White-Bellied Blue Flycatcher
The nests of White-Bellied Blue Flycatcher is a rough cup of moss neatly lined on the inside and placed low on a moss covered rock, hole in tree or mud-bank.
Eggs of White-Bellied Blue Flycatcher
The usual clutch of White-Bellied Blue Flycatcher is four eggs which are pale sea-green with brown spotting, denser on the broad end.