---
title: "Hill Blue Flycatcher"
description: "Cyornis whitei — Birds. The hill blue flycatcher (Cyornis whitei) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/hill-blue-flycatcher
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Hill Blue Flycatcher

> Cyornis whitei — Birds. The hill blue flycatcher (Cyornis whitei) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae.

- Scientific name: *Cyornis whitei*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: `forest` (Forest)
- iNaturalist observations: 960
- Wikidata: [Q40990975](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40990975)
- iNaturalist taxon: [1286868](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1286868)

## Names

- en: Hill Blue Flycatcher
- de: Hügelblauschnäpper
- es: Papamoscas pechiclaro
- fr: Gobemouche de White

## Countries with the most observations

TH (297), IN (136), CN (117), MY (65), HK (20), MM (14), VN (6), BD (5)

## Summary

The hill blue flycatcher (Cyornis whitei) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae.
It is found in southern China, northeastern India and Southeast Asia.

It was treated as a subspecies of Cyornis banyumas before molecular phylogenetic studies found them to be distinct.

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

## Photo

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

Photo: Don Wellmann · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/229125057

## Machine access

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