Paradise flycatcher

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Indian Paradise Flycatcher. Photographer: Himel Nobi.

Indian Paradise Flycatcher (Terpsiphone paradisi), India 🇮🇳 ✨ . 📷 Photographer: @shrikrishnamagdum 📸 . .

Indian paradise flycatchers (Terpsiphone paradisi) are noisy birds uttering sharp skreek calls. They have short legs and sit very upright whilst perched prominently, like a shrike. They are insectivorous and hunt in flight in the understorey. In the afternoons they dive from perches to bath in small pools of water.

Asian Paradise Flycatcher (Terpsiphone paradisi) in Sri Lanka.

This bird dipping into the water with its reflection is superb. Such gorgeous flow!

Adult males have extremely long tail streamers, and can show mainly rufous, white, or black-and-white plumage. Female is rufous and lacks tail streamers. Both sexes have a blue ring around the eye. Found in all forest types and in adjacent plantations and scrub. Restless, active mid-story bird that sometimes joins mixed feeding flocks. Call is a tearing “shree-shreeet”, and song a long, musical series of “twee” notes. Black-and-white males larger and longer-tailed than Ward’s Flycatcher…

Long orange tail

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