Verditer Flycatcher

The verditer flycatcher is an Old World flycatcher found from the Himalaya through Southeast Asia to Sumatra. Adult males are intense blue on all areas of the body except for the black eye-patch and grey vent, while adult females and sub-adults are lighter blue. It is interesting among the flycatchers in that it forages above the canopy level and perches on electric wires or exposed tree-top branches (Wikipedia, general species account).

It is named after its distinctive shade of copper-sulphate blue, with a dark patch between the eyes and above the bill base. It was earlier placed in Muscicapa and it has been suggested that it is closer to the Niltava flycatchers (Wikipedia, general species account).