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Blue-throated Flycatcher

It seems to me certainly unusual to see so much orange on the breast of Hainan Blue--perhaps just an artifact of the photo and the angle.  If this bird is a Hainan Blue and has so much orange, I wonder if some birds could even have significantly more orange on the breast.  The problem is that for Blue-throated (dialilaema) the reddish should form a more of a reddish V on the throat which is lacking here.  This might indicate one of the other races (now separate species I believe) of Blue-throated Flycatcher but they would be very unlikely to occur here.

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I was thinking of rubeculoides but I think for now I would still assume it was a Hainan Blue.  Would be great to see more photos though if they were available.

[ Last edited by brendank at 14/09/2010 13:08 ]

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How about a hybrid?  There several species in the cyornis genus with overlapping range. A hybrid presumably could show any range of intermediate characteristics between parent species.

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