Profile
In flight
Songbirds
Verditer Flycatcher
Eumyias thalassinus
- uncommon
- 48 km/h
- Least Concern
An impossible shade of cool blue against the green of a foothill clearing — sits straight-backed on a snag, sallies after a midge, returns to the same twig. The color of a clean morning sky given feathers.
- Population
- widespread; populations large but locally seasonal
- Habitat
- open broadleaf forest, foothill clearings, well-wooded gardens; breeds in the Himalayan foothills, winters across South and Southeast Asia
- Diet
- flying insects taken in mid-air sallies from an exposed perch
- Size
- 0.16 m
- Wingspan
- 0.25 m
