Nicobar Jungle Flycatcher Cyornis nicobaricus Scientific name definitions

14–15 cm. Medium-sized to large, plump brownish flycatcher with long hook-tipped bill and short rounded wings. Adult has plain brown head with pale bufffish or tawny eyering and supraloral line, pale fulvous-brown cheeks; upperparts brown, rufous edgings on rump and tail feathers, rufous edgings on slightly darker brown flight-feathers; chin and throat white, breast brown with darker barring, flanks paler brown, rest of underparts white except buff or peachy undertail-coverts (also underwing-coverts); iris dark brown; bill blackish, mandible yellowish; legs pinkish. Sexes alike in plumage, female on average smaller than male. Juvenile is similar to adult, but has buff feather tips on upperparts (scaly appearance).

S Nicobar Is (Great and Little Nicobar).

Not globally threatened. Currently considered Near Threatened. Restricted-range species: confined to the Nicobar Islands EBA. Fairly common. This species has a very small global range, within which its population size (assuming that only a proportion of its range is occupied) is likely to be 2200–20,000 individuals (equating to 1450–13,300 mature individuals). The clearing and conversion of forests for plantation-planting and infrastructure development are serious threats, and these, combined with earlier habitat losses, suggest that this species is suffering a slow decline.