Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike Hemipus picatus Scientific name definitions
Text last updated December 26, 2012
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Species names in all available languages
Language | Common name |
---|---|
Catalan | vanga alabarrat |
Chinese (SIM) | 褐背鹟鵙 |
Dutch | Bonte Dwergtriller |
English | Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike |
English (United States) | Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike |
French | Hémipe gobemouche |
French (France) | Hémipe gobemouche |
German | Elsterschnäppervanga |
Indonesian | Jingjing bukit |
Japanese | ヒタキサンショウクイ |
Malayalam | അസുരപ്പൊട്ടൻ |
Norwegian | båndflueeter |
Polish | kruczynek białoskrzydły |
Russian | Пёстрый личинколов |
Slovak | strakárik muchárikovitý |
Spanish | Oruguero Alibarrado |
Spanish (Spain) | Oruguero alibarrado |
Swedish | bandvingad skogstörnskata |
Thai | นกเขนน้อยปีกแถบขาว |
Turkish | Ala Kanatlı Sinekkapan Vanga |
Ukrainian | Личинколюб білокрилий |
Hemipus picatus (Sykes, 1832)
Definitions
- HEMIPUS
- picatum / picatus
The Key to Scientific Names
Legend Overview
Field Identification
14–15 cm; 8·5–9·5 g. Male nominate race has top of head, upperparts and wings glossy black, lores to ear-coverts also black, cheeks and side of neck white; rump white, upper rump barred black, uppertail-coverts black; median and greater upperwing-coverts broadly tipped white, three inner secondaries edged white (longitudinal bar on closed wing); tail black, tipped white (except central feathers), outermost feather also narrowly edged white; chin and stripe around throat side pure white; underparts greyish-white, more vinous on breast, whiter on belly, undertail-coverts and underwing-coverts; thighs ashy brown; iris red-brown; bill black; legs dark grey to black. Readily distinguished from H. hirundinaceus by white on wings and tip of tail. Female is like male, but glossy black areas replaced by sooty black. Juvenile resembles female, but white band on rump narrow, uppertail-coverts tipped white, rest of upperparts and lesser wing-coverts sooty brown with buff feather fringes, median and secondary coverts buff-white with two narrow brown bars, secondaries and tertials tipped and edged buff-white, underparts entirely off-white; immature apparently like female. Race intermedius is darker than nominate; capitalis has black cap and dark brown mantle; <em>leggei</em> is black above in both sexes, slightly paler below.
Systematics History
Editor's Note: This article requires further editing work to merge existing content into the appropriate Subspecies sections. Please bear with us while this update takes place.
Four subspecies recognized.Subspecies
Hemipus picatus capitalis Scientific name definitions
Distribution
Himalayas (E from N India in Himachal Pradesh), SE Tibet through S China (W and S Yunnan, S and C Guizhou, W Guangxi), N, C and E Myanmar, NW Thailand, N Laos and N Vietnam (W Tonkin).
Hemipus picatus capitalis (Horsfield, 1840)
Definitions
- HEMIPUS
- picatum / picatus
- capitale / capitalis
The Key to Scientific Names
Legend Overview
Hemipus picatus picatus Scientific name definitions
Distribution
Hemipus picatus picatus (Sykes, 1832)
Definitions
- HEMIPUS
- picatum / picatus
The Key to Scientific Names
Legend Overview
Hemipus picatus intermedius Scientific name definitions
Distribution
Hemipus picatus intermedius Salvadori, 1879
Definitions
- HEMIPUS
- picatum / picatus
- intermedea / intermedia / intermedianus / intermedium / intermedius
The Key to Scientific Names
Legend Overview
Hemipus picatus leggei Scientific name definitions
Distribution
Hemipus picatus leggei Whistler, 1939
Definitions
- HEMIPUS
- picatum / picatus
- leggei
The Key to Scientific Names
Legend Overview
Distribution
Editor's Note: Additional distribution information for this taxon can be found in the 'Subspecies' article above. In the future we will develop a range-wide distribution article.
Habitat
High, open canopy and edges of lowland forest, including disturbed forest; also secondary forest, bamboo stands, scrub, plantations and wooded gardens, including those far from true forest. In mountains, to 2100 m; breeds mainly at 600–1800 m in Himalayan region.
Movement
Chiefly resident. Some altitudinal and local movements in Himalayas and NE India, with post-breeding descent to foothills and adjacent plains.
Diet and Foraging
Takes insects, including butterflies (Lepidoptera), beetles (Coleoptera), winged ants (Formicidae) and winged termites (Isoptera). Regularly joins mixed-species flocks in canopy. Forages in manner of a flycatcher (Muscicapidae), perches upright and sallies from habitually used exposed perches; also gleans from foliage. Occasionally takes prey from ground.
Sounds and Vocal Behavior
Sharp “chisik” or “chir-rup” and shorter “tsik”; also high-pitched, trilling, repeated “wiraka”.
Breeding
Breeds Feb–Aug in Indian Subcontinent, Apr in Myanmar, Feb and Apr in Peninsular Malaysia and Mar–Jul in China. Nest built by both sexes, a small, shallow cup of roots, fine twigs, moss and grasses, bound with cobwebs, anchored to branch 3–12 m above ground. Eggs 2–3; both sexes incubate and both care for young; no information on incubation and fledging periods.
Conservation Status
Not globally threatened. Fairly common in Indian Subcontinent, common in Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka; common in SE Asia and China, but occurs rather sparingly in Myanmar. Common in N and in upland forest in Malay Peninsula, uncommon in S Malaysian lowlands; observed densities imply that major slope populations would be viable in isolation. Less numerous than H. hirundinaceus in Sumatra and Borneo. Occurs in several protected areas, e.g. Royal Chitwan National Park, in Nepal, Corbett National Park, in India, Kaeng Krachan National Park, in Thailand, and Taman Negara National Park, in Peninsular Malaysia.