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title: "Blue-throated Flycatcher"
description: "Cyornis rubeculoides — Birds. The blue-throated blue flycatcher (Cyornis rubeculoides) is a small passerine bird in the flycatcher family, Muscicapidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/blue-throated-flycatcher
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Blue-throated Flycatcher

> Cyornis rubeculoides — Birds. The blue-throated blue flycatcher (Cyornis rubeculoides) is a small passerine bird in the flycatcher family, Muscicapidae.

- Scientific name: *Cyornis rubeculoides*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: `forest` (Forest)
- iNaturalist observations: 710
- Wikidata: [Q2229839](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2229839)
- iNaturalist taxon: [578349](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/578349)

## Names

- en: Blue-throated Flycatcher
- de: Blaukehlblauschnäpper
- es: Papamoscas Gorgiazul
- fr: Gobemouche à menton bleu
- pl: Dżunglówka modrogłowa

## Countries with the most observations

IN (506), NP (21), BD (17), BT (17), TH (16), MM (10)

## Summary

The blue-throated blue flycatcher (Cyornis rubeculoides) is a small passerine bird in the flycatcher family, Muscicapidae. It resembles Cyornis tickelliae but easily separated by the blue throat. The habitat of this species is a thicker forest than other species of flycatchers.  The blue-throated flycatcher is found in much of the Indian subcontinent, all through the Himalayas, the plains and Western Ghats of India in the cold months, and also extends eastwards into Bangladesh, and to Arakan and the Tenasserim Hills in Myanmar.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-throated_blue_flycatcher

## Photo

![Blue-throated Flycatcher](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/blue-throated-flycatcher/medium.jpg)

Photo: Nicolás Tamargo · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/247740571

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/blue-throated-flycatcher?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).