Zappey's Flycatcher

Order - Passeriformes
Family - Muscicapidae (Old World Flycatchers and Chats)

Zappey's Flycatcher

Cyanoptila cumatilis

琉璃蓝鹟 (liú-lí lán-wēng)

    Malay : Sambar-Berlau Rengkung Biru

    Japanese : チョウセンオオルリ (chousen ō ruri)
    Kanji 日語漢字 : 朝鮮大瑠璃 / 朝鮮大琉璃

                    

    Taxonomy update for 2014

Blue-and-white Flycatcher (Cyanoptila cyanomelana) is split into two species, following Leader and Carey (2012): Blue-and-white Flycatcher (Cyanoptila cyanomelana), which includes cyanomelana and a newly added subspecies, intermedia; and Zappey’s Flycatcher (Cyanoptila cumatilis). Zappey’s Flycatcher is quite rare and poorly known, so most eBird records were assumed to pertain to Blue-and-white Flycatcher unless specifically noted as Zappey’s. If you have seen Zappey’s Flycatcher, or have seen breeding birds of this complex in the range of Zappey’s (central China from Shaanxi east to Beijing, and south to northwest Hubei), please do update your eBird records accordingly and be sure to add some notes about how the identification was made. The wintering grounds and migration route of Zappey’s remain poorly known, so records outside of the breeding season would be of particular interest and it would be especially important to add documentation on those records. :

- Blue-and-white Flycatcher (Cyanoptila cyanomelana)
- Zappey’s Flycatcher (Cyanoptila cumatilis)

    Size : 16-17 cm, average 25 g

    

    Subspecies and Distribution

Monotypic. (Thayer and Bangs, 1909, Ma-fu-ling, 5500 feet [c. 1680 m], north-west Hubei, China.)
– C & EC China, from Beijing S to S Shaanxi and W Hubei, probably further W to N Sichuan; non-breeding S Thailand, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Java, scarce in N Borneo.

Date : 29 November 2021

Location : Penang Botanic Gardens, Georgetown, Daerah Timur Laut, Pulau Pinang

Date : 13 March 2016

Location : Hutan Lipur Sungai Sedim, Mukim Karangan, Daerah Kulim, Kedah