Hook-nosed Sea Snake

Tickell's Blue Flycatcher

The Tickell's Blue Flycatcher is about 11–12 cm long. It sits upright and often forages in the undergrowth. The male has the upper parts dark blue and the throat breast and flanks are orange fading into the buffy white belly. The female is duller blue with a brighter blue brow, shoulder, rump and tail. It hybridizes with the Pale-chinned Flycatcher (Cyornis poliogenys) in the Eastern Ghats of India and these hybrids have sometimes been called the subspecies vernayi. The juvenile is streaked and has a spotted mantle. It is an upright long-tailed flycatcher. The male is a beautiful bird which has bright blue upper parts, a red throat and breast, and the rest of the under parts white. Females are duller, and the red is reduced in intensity and extent. Juvenile birds have scaly brown upper parts, head and breast, with just the wings and tail being blue. They have sometimes been to feed even after dusk.[3] Apart from flying insects they have been noted to occasionally glean crawling insects.