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Tickell's Blue Flycatcher

Cyornis tickelliae · Family Muscicapidae

Cyornis tickelliae

Family Muscicapidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Muscicapidae
GBIF occurrence records
183,251
Countries and territories with records
12
Tickell's Blue Flycatcher
JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/) · Cyornis sumatrensis, male - Kaeng Krachan, Thailand 1.jpg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · DivyaCM · Dawn_chorus_at_Glencairnie_big_bungalow_Craigmore_DM.ogg · CC BY 4.0 · DivyaCM · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 183,251 occurrence records from 12 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (87.5%), Sri Lanka (5%), Thailand (4.8%) and Vietnam (1.2%); together they account for 98.4% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.26% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Cyornis tickelliae combines the genus name Cyornis with the species epithet tickelliae. The Warbla app catalog lists 24 species of the genus Cyornis; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Cyornis rubeculoides, Cyornis hainanus and Cyornis whitei.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 316 species of the family Muscicapidae. This species ranks 23rd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Erithacus rubecula. Its record count is 1.6 times the family average (117,032). The family Muscicapidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Muscicapidae

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