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Asian Paradise Flycatcher

Terpsiphone paradisi

Description:

Males have elongated central tail feathers, and in some populations a black and rufous plumage while others have white plumage. Females are short-tailed with rufous wings and a black head. They feed on insects, which they capture in the air often below a densely canopied tree. Young males are rufous and have short tails. They acquire long tails in their second or third year. Adult males are either predominantly bright rufous above or predominantly white. Some specimens show some degree of intermediacy between rufous and white. Long-tailed rufous birds are generally devoid of shaft streaks on the wing and tail feathers, while in white birds the shaft streaks, and sometimes the edges of the wing and tail feathers are black.

Habitat:

Seen at Madhav National Park. Asian Paradise-flycatchers inhabit thick forests and well-wooded habitats from Turkestan to Manchuria, all over India and Sri Lanka to the Malay Archipelago on the islands of Sumba and Alor. They are vagrant in Korea and Maldives, and regionally extinct in Singapore.

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22 Comments

Wild Things
Wild Things 11 years ago

Thanks Aakash :-)

JivaniAakash
JivaniAakash 11 years ago

Awesome

Wild Things
Wild Things 11 years ago

Thank you Kuheli!

KuheliBD
KuheliBD 11 years ago

a beauty..

Wild Things
Wild Things 11 years ago

Thanks Ashish!

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 11 years ago

Lovely Young male one...!!
Nice find...
They are Rufus back during subadult immature stage...
http://orientalbirdimages.org/search.php...

Wild Things
Wild Things 11 years ago

Thanks for your comment Sumukha!

Sumukha Javagal
Sumukha Javagal 11 years ago

Wonderful spotting..!

Wild Things
Wild Things 11 years ago

Thank you Isabella, Matimar1 and willie for your nice comments. Thanks for your invite matimar1, but there is already a mission called birds of the world and I have already joined it.

williefromwi
williefromwi 11 years ago

wonderful spotting Satyen

IsabellaFiers
IsabellaFiers 11 years ago

Wow, amazing pics of a wonderfull creature, love it !!!!!

Wild Things
Wild Things 11 years ago

Thanks Carol!

CarolSnowMilne
CarolSnowMilne 11 years ago

Very nice bird!

Wild Things
Wild Things 11 years ago

Thank you birdlady!

birdlady6000
birdlady6000 11 years ago

Very cool bird and spotting!

Wild Things
Wild Things 11 years ago

Thanks Sachin, Atul, Leanne, Nuwan, Daniele and Megs 18. I am glad you all liked it.

Megs18
Megs18 11 years ago

what a beautiful bird, such a brilliant blue.

DanielePralong
DanielePralong 11 years ago

Beautiful bird and series Satyen!

NuwanChathuranga
NuwanChathuranga 11 years ago

Awesome !!

LeanneGardner
LeanneGardner 11 years ago

Spectacular! What a fabulous looking bird!

Atul
Atul 11 years ago

wowww superb capture Satyen !

Sachin Zaveri
Sachin Zaveri 11 years ago

Fabulous spotting with excellent captures,
wonderful bird,

Wild Things
Spotted by
Wild Things

Shivpuri, Madhya Pradesh, India

Spotted on Jun 4, 2012
Submitted on Jun 11, 2012

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