Attractive medium-sized flycatcher with blue upper-parts and orange-and-white underparts, with the most orange on the chest and the throat. Male is more intensely-colored overall than the female. Smaller-billed profile, less extensive orange, and paler face Favors open hill forests as well as forest edge. A small bird in the flycatcher family. This is an insectivorous species which breeds in tropical Asia, from the Indian Subcontinent eastwards to Bangladesh and western Myanmar. They are blue on the upper parts and the throat and breast are light rusty color. They are found in dense scrub to forest habitats. The Bird has a terrestrial lifestyle and is not a migrant. It feeds mainly in insects, breeds in dry forest, scrub, bamboo and gardens.It sits upright and forages mainly in the overgrowth. The male's upper parts are bright blue, its throat and breast are red, and the rest of the underparts are white. The female is duller blue with a brighter blue brow, shoulder, rump, and tail.
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