Dayak blue flycatcher

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Dayak blue flycatcher
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male
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Muscicapidae
Genus: Cyornis
Species:
C. montanus
Binomial name
Cyornis montanus
(Robinson & Kinnear, 1928)

The Dayak blue flycatcher (Cyornis montanus) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is endemic to the island of Borneo. [2] The Dayak blue flycatcher, formerly considered conspecific with the Javan blue flycatcher (Cyornis banyumas), was split as a distinct species by the IOC in 2021. [3]

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References

  1. BirdLife International (2022). "Cyornis montanus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2022: e.T216915119A217195296. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
  2. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Chats, Old World flycatchers". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
  3. "Species Updates – IOC World Bird List" . Retrieved 2021-05-27.