Tickell`s Blue Flycatcher (Cyornis tickelliae)
Order: PASSERIFORMES
Family: MUSCICAPIDAE Flycatchers
Scientific name: Cyornis tickelliae
English name: Tickell`s Blue Flycatcher
Characteristic: "Size 13 cm. A small bird with short crest; throat and upper breast grey ,upperpart greenish yellow and the underpart bright yellow."
Distribution: "Pakistan , india ,southern China ,Southeast Asia and the Greater Sundas."
Habitat: "Mixed deciduous forest , dry evergreen forest to hill evergreen forest. In Sakaerat forest, it occers in the dry dipterocarp in the compound of the Main Station."
Habit: "Rather tame; haunting clearing along roadsides and along forest streams. In breeding season , it keeps in pairs , and will stay single in other seasons, and occasionally observed to forage in accompany with other small sized insect-eating birds, when it patrols from low branches up to the moderate heights. Inserct preys will be caught from a perch. Breeding starts from April to June, when a half- cupped-shaped nest is built to accommodate a clutch of 3-4 pale flash colour eggs spotted and streaked with gray. the incubation time lasts 11-12 days"
Status: "This bird appears in this country as a resident , a passage migrant and a non-breeding visitor. Those seen in Sakaerat forest during September and January are assumed to be a migrant. It is proteced legally as a protected wild animal."
