snowy browed flycatcher
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PAKHI DEKHUN PAKHI CHINUN # 344 (Observe the Bird and recognize)..SNOWY BROWED FLYCATCHER...[From a Photograph of RANJAN BARTHAKUR] ....WATERCOLOUR...A4...2014... The snowy-browed flycatcher (Ficedula hyperythra) is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. In January 2014 this bird was found in south of West Bengal, India in the dense undergrowth and very close to the ground. 11–13 cm; 6–10 g. Small, short-tailed, round-headed and small-billed flycatcher, male dark blue above and female olive-brown. Song quiet, high-pitched and wheezing series of descending “tsit-tsip-tsee-tswii” . Food not well studied; principally small invertebrates and larvae, including dipteran flies, spiders (Araneae), also small earthworms.
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