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Leaden Flycatcher (Female)

Myiagra rubecula

Photo by JamesPriest2
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Description:

The Leaden Flycatcher is a small bird, mainly dark blue grey above and white below, with a small crest and a broad black-tipped blue bill surrounded by small bristles. It is sexually dimorphic (two forms), with males having entirely dark blue-grey upperparts, head and chest, while females have a blue-grey head and back with a distinctive reddish orange chin, throat and breast merging gradually into white lower parts, as well as a pale eye-ring. Young birds are brown-grey above with streaked wings and mottled brown chests with a reddish wash (From Birds in Backyards)

Habitat:

First time sighting of this bird in my garden. It has been visiting for the past several days. Mostly higher up in the trees I have so was hard to get good photos

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