Blue-and-white Flycatcher

The Blue-and-white Flycatcher (Cyanoptila cyanomelana) is a small perching bird.

Description
It is 16 - 17 cm in length and has a wingspan of 26 cm.

It is the size of a Paperbark Flycatcher but plumper. Males have a black forehead that is sharply demarcated from the glossy blue crown, mantle, back, rump, and uppertail-coverts. Uppertail is blue-black with outer vein of outer feathers whitish for upper third while flight feathers are blackish. Face, ear-coverts, throat, bill and upperbreast are black. Legs are dark grey. Females have olive-brown upperparts with a rufous wash on uppertail-coverts. Dominantly brown plumage with white underparts and throat. Juveniles are similar to females though young males possess variable amounts of blue in wings, rump, and tail.

Similar species
Males are distinguished; however, the females are difficult to distinguish from a number of Old World flycatchers and warblers from north Australia. Specifically similar to the Narcissus Flycatcher.

Calls
Has a usually silent voice away from breeding areas.

Distribution/habitat
Breeds in Japan and Korea while it migrates to southeastern Asia, Philippines, Greater Sundas. Recorded in Australia and in Christmas Island.