Bar-winged flycatcher-shrike

Bar-winged flycatcher-shrike
Hemipus picatus capitalis from Uttarakhand, India
Calls of H. p. picatus (South India)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Vangidae
Genus: Hemipus
Species:
H. picatus
Binomial name
Hemipus picatus
(Sykes, 1832)
Subspecies
  • H. p. picatus (Sykes, 1832)
  • H. p. capitalis (Horsfield, 1840)
  • H. p. leggei Whistler, 1939
  • H. p. intermedius Salvadori, 1879
Synonyms

Muscicapa picata
Hemipus picaecolor[2]

The bar-winged flycatcher-shrike (Hemipus picatus) is a small passerine bird usually placed in the Vangidae. It is found in the forests of tropical southern Asia from the Himalayas and hills of southern India to Indonesia. Mainly insectivorous it is found hunting in the mid-canopy of forests, often joining mixed-species foraging flocks. They perch upright and have a distinctive pattern of black and white, males being more shiny black than the females. In some populations the colour of the back is brownish while others have a dark wash on the underside.

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2018). "Hemipus picatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22706769A130352774. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22706769A130352774.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ Mayr E; J C Greenway, eds. (1960). Checklist of the birds of the world. Vol. 9. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge Massachusetts. pp. 217–218.