White tailed blue flycatcher

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Your birds are always brilliant, Pratim.

Beautiful!

Very nice work Pratim. I'm learning so much about birds :) thanks for the additional info! Very good of you to educate.

Thanks Jennifer Brown maam ... Thanks Margaret Beynon... Thanks Res. Ibolya Taligas ... My pleasure...

*FOREIGN BIRDS ON MY CANVAS* PAKHI DEKHOON PAKHI CHINOON @ 793[Observe the bird and recognize]… A4…Watercolour …[From the Ref. photograph of Internet]… The white-tailed blue flycatcher (Elminia albicauda) is a species of bird in the familyStenostiridae. It is found in Angola, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi,Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and dry savanna. 14 cm; 6–9 g. Small, dainty and slender blue flycatcher with blunt crest and long graduated tail. Male is almost entirely blue, crown streaked whitish. Song a short, pleasant but rather jumbled warbling series of jingling notes. Food consists mostly of small invertebrates, including ants (Hymenoptera), termites (Isoptera), beetles (Coleoptera), flies (Diptera). [info:Wikipedia & hbw]