- Myiagra cyanoleuca
Identification
Male blue-black above, blue-black chest and white below with very dark undertail; females duskier blue-black above, orange-red chin, throat and breast, and white underparts and pale-edged wing and tail feathers. Young birds are dark brown-grey above, with pale streaks and buff edges to the wing feathers, and a mottled brown-orange throat and chest.
Similar Species
Leaden Flycatcher is quite similar; undertail should be paler grey.
Distribution
East coast of Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea.
Taxonomy
Monotypic.
Habitat
Temperate forests and moist lowland forests.
Behaviour
Its nest is broad-based and cup-shaped made of shredded bark and grass, coated with spider webs and decorated with lichen, placed on a bare, horizontal branch, with overhanging foliage, about 3 m - 25 m above the ground. Both sexes build the nest, incubate the eggs and feed the young. Nests may be parasitised.
References
- birdforum thread discussing id of this species
