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Tickell's Blue Flycatcher

Cyornis tickelliae

IUCN: Least Concern
Tickell's Blue Flycatcher (Cyornis tickelliae) photographed by Devendra Bhardwaj

Image: Devendra Bhardwaj · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0 · Jamwa Ramgarh, Vishanpura, Rajasthan · Resized

Tickell's Blue Flycatcher (Cyornis tickelliae) photographed by Devendra Bhardwaj

Image: Devendra Bhardwaj · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0 · Kukas, Sisiyawas, Rajasthan · Resized

Scientific name
Cyornis tickelliae
Family
Muscicapidae, order Passeriformes
Group
Bird
Conservation status
Least Concern

A little blue bird with an orange vest.

  • Spot it Deep blue back, orange throat and chest, white belly.
  • Home Woodland and shady gardens.
  • Food web Snaps up insects from the air.
  • Why it matters Snaps up flying insects, keeping their numbers balanced, and feeds snakes and larger birds in turn.

Read more: Tickell's blue flycatcher on Wikipedia

Sources and credits

Records and field notes

  • RajasthanDevendra Bhardwaj has 2 verified records of this species on iNaturalist in 2010, in Sisiyawas and Vishanpura.[20]

Sources

  1. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (species pages linked on each entry) (database). Global conservation status. Every species page was opened.
  2. Devendra Bhardwaj. iNaturalist observations and notes, with place and date (inaturalist.org/people/devendrabhardwaj) (field record). The observer's own dated records and notes, with places. Statements in his notes are his own and were not independently checked by KJVF.
  3. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and GBIF species data (family, order, Hindi names, IUCN category) (database). Open biodiversity data. Used for classification, Hindi common names and the IUCN category where one is given.
  4. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (opening lines of each species article, CC BY-SA 4.0). The link on each entry goes to the article (reference). Not peer reviewed. Only the opening description is used, and statements about origin or medicinal use are left out.
  5. Short introductions and key points written with AI help (Google Gemini and Claude) and checked against GBIF where possible (reference). AI-assisted text for general readers. Please check important details before relying on them.

The tag before each record shows the place it was checked for.

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