IDENTITY:
Breeding Male has bright blue upperparts and sides of breast (with glistening blue crown and rump), orange throat and centre to breast, and white belly and undertail-coverts. Non-breeding and immature male have brown head and mantle, and brownish sides of breast. Female has olive-brown upperparts, orange throat and breast, and rufous rump and tail.
HABIT AND HABITED:
Moist evergreen broadleaved forest, Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
FOOD:
Diet not well known, but includes small invertebrates and larvae. Usually solitary or in pairs
VOICE:
Calls comprise low tit-it-it rattle and dry rattled call trrrt.
INFO:
The sapphire flycatcher (Ficedula sapphira) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam.
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