Male © Nikolaj Mølgaard Thomsen eBird S32662438 Macaulay Library ML 40671581
Female © Ramon Quisumbing
Male © Ravi Iyengar
Female © Ravi Iyengar
Male © Robert Hutchinson
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Male © Robert Hutchinson
Male © Janina Castro

Palawan Blue Flycatcher Cyornis lemprieri

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Identification

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A fairly small bird of lowland and foothill forest on Palawan and neighboring islands. Relatively large for a flycatcher, with a white belly and an orange throat and chest. Male has blue upperparts, a blackish face and edge of the wing, and a pale blue eyebrow and forecrown. Female has a gray head with a broken white eye-ring, brown wings, and a rufous tail. Similar to Mangrove Blue-Flycatcher, but male Palawan has paler blue upperparts and a paler orange chest. Song consists of pleasant, tinkling phrases of five or so metallic notes, each one slightly different.

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