Cyornis tickelliae
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In 3 days ~90% in a week >90%
Tickell's blue flycatcher (Cyornis tickelliae) is a small passerine 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. The Indochinese blue flycatcher was formerly considered conspecific. They are blue on the upperparts and the throat and breast are rufous. They are found in dense scrub to forest habitats. The name commemorates the wife of the British ornithologist Samuel Tickell who collected in India and Burma.
Tickell's blue flycatcher is about 11–12 cm long. 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. It hybridizes with the pale-chinned blue flycatcher (Cyornis poliogenys) in the Eastern Ghats of India and these hybrids have sometimes been treated as a subspecies vernayi. The juvenile is streaked and has a spotted mantle, scaly brown upperparts, head and breast, with just the wings and tail being blue.
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Likely
About 50% of wildlife watchers report a Tickell's Blue Flycatcher sighting in Hyderabad on a given day, based on 1,870 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 10th most-seen of the 194 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 90%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
February–March and October–December
In those months about 60% of wildlife watchers report a Tickell's Blue Flycatcher in Hyderabad on a given day, against about 40% in May and July–September, the lowest months. Those are among Hyderabad's driest months, with about 25 mm of rain a month against 190 mm in August.
Between 4 and 7 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Tickell's Blue Flycatcher sightings with a recorded time, and about 6 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is most active around dawn and dusk.
Yes
Of the 26 cities where we can rate Tickell's Blue Flycatcher sightings, Hyderabad has the highest daily chance: about 50%. Next come Jabalpur (India, about 50%) and Mysuru (India, about 30%).
Same family: Muscicapidae
The closest relatives of the Tickell's Blue Flycatcher that you can see in Hyderabad (family Muscicapidae, Old World Flycatchers, Robins, and Chats) are Indian Robin (about 50%), Oriental Magpie-Robin (about 20%) and Pied Bushchat (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Tickell's Blue Flycatcher is recorded against all the birds logged in Hyderabad (1,870 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
