Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike (Hemipus picatus)
Order: PASSERIFORMES
Family: CAMPEPHAGIDAE Cuckoo-Shrikes, Minivets
Scientific name: Hemipus picatus
English name: Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike
Characteristic: Size 15 cm. Its upperpart from head to tail are wholly black, with a conspicuous white wing band and a white rump patch; underpart is pale grey. A female is over all paler in body plumage and its breast darker than the belly.
Distribution: India, Southwestern China, Sumatra, Borneo and SE Asia.
Habitat: Dry evergreen forest, dipterocarp forest, secondary growth, bamboo forest nd along the forest edges.
Habit: Hunting for insects in the tree canopy or lower in the shrubbery. Always seen perching on an exposed twig and sallying after passing insects, which it will bring to feed at this same spot. Breeding time falls between March-May, when they build a nest high in the tree top, in which a clutch of 2-3 eggs will be deposited
Status: A less-frequently seen resident.
