(delhibirdpix) Snowy-browed Flycatcher

Common Name : Snowy-browed Flycatcher

 

Scientific name: Ficedula hyperythra hyperythra

 

Status in the Region: Uncommon & Resident 

 

Place: Premayantse Monastery environs, Near Pelling, Western Sikkim,  alt.approx: 2000 mts

Site Habitat: Tropical humid & evergreen Broadleaved Forest with dense secondary undergrowth…. This was close to the monastery.

 

Date:  1^st April 2010

Equipment: Canon 40 D with Canon 100-400 mm IS lens

Notes:

 

This ball of feathers belongs to the typical flycatcher family – Muscicapidae….. "musca" in latin means "Fly". All the members of this family has a relatively small, short, vertically (dorso-ventrally) flattened, and pointed beak and all of them show stout, well-developed bristles (known as rictal bristles) at the gape of the beak, which help increase the effectiveness at catching flying insects. They also have the habit of dropping wings and cocking tail....

Interestingly most flycatchers feed by sitting on a conspicuous perch until a flying insect is spotted, which is then pursued and caught in an aerial sally. Some species repeatedly return to use a favorite perch for hunting, a behavior which can be useful when photographing flycatchers (It is a rewarding habit to observe such birds for few mins first, before frantically rushing behind them for a shot) …… This chap was doing the same, but was also overlooking the female that was busy building the nest (the male did not participate)…. That's when we decided to leave him alone and satisfy ourselves with only a record shot in the dim light :-(

For the groups which don't allow attachments......here is the link to the photograph...

 

http://www.indianaturewatch.net/displayimage.php?id=149824

 

 

References: click here ....

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowy-browed_Flycatcher

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_World_flycatcher

 

http://www.trueknowledge.com/q/what_is_the_scientific_name_for_snowy-browed_flycatcher

 

 

Regards,

Adesh Shivkar

Mumbai, India

http://natureindia.ning.com/

 

 

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