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Indian Blue Robin

நீலச்சிட்டு

Larvivora brunnea

Least concern

Indian Blue Robin
shrikant rao from bangalore, india · CC BY 2.0

Overview

The Indian blue robin is a small bird found in the Indian subcontinent. Formerly considered a thrush, it is now considered one of the Old World flycatchers in the family Muscicapidae. It was earlier also called the Indian blue chat. It is migratory, breeding in the forests along the Himalayas of Nepal, India, Myanmar and Bangladesh. They winter in the hill forests of the Western Ghats of India and in Sri Lanka.

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  1. Wikipedia (EN): Indian blue robin — CC BY-SA 4.0
  2. Wikipedia (TA): நீலச்சிட்டு — CC BY-SA 4.0