ASIAN PARADISE FLYCATCHER (Terpsiphone paradisi) is a medium-sized passerine birdnative to Asia. 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.
With an extremely large range and a large population that appears
to be stable, they have been evaluated as Least Concern by IUCN since 2004.
In his first description of 1758, Carl von Linné nominated the species Corvus
paradisi. Paradise-flycatchers used to be classified with the Old World flycatcher familyMuscicapidae, but are now placed
in the family Monarchidae together with monarch flycatchers.
Adult Asian Paradise Flycatchers are
19–22 cm (7.5–8.7 in) long. Their wings are 86–92 mm
(3.4–3.6 in) long. Young males look very much like females but have a
black throat and blue-ringed eyes. As adults they develop up to 24 cm
(9.4 in) long tail feathers with two central tail feathers growing up to
30 cm (12 in) long drooping streamers.
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 Sumbaand Alor. They are vagrant
in Korea and Maldives, and regionally extinct in Singapore.
They are migratory and spend the winter
season in tropical Asia. There are
resident populations in southern India and Sri Lanka, hence both visiting
migrants and the locally breeding subspecies occur in these areas in winter.
Three
or four eggs are laid in a neat cup
nest made with twigs and spider webs on the end of a low branch.[INFO:WIKIPEDIA]
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