Indochinese Blue-flycatcher

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

Indochinese Blue-flycatcher

Cyornis sumatrensis

印支蓝仙鹟 (yìn-zhī lán xiān-wēng)

    Malay : Sambar-Biru Belukar Timur

    Japanese : ノドアカヒメアオヒタキ [sumatrensis グループ]

                       (nodo aka hime ao-hitaki [sumatrensis guru-pu])

    Kanji 日語漢字 : 喉赤青鶲

    Extent of Occurrence (resident/breeding) : 2,420,000km²

    Migratory Status : Not a Migrant
    Breeding Endemic : No

    Taxonomy update for 2019

Tickell’s Blue-flycatcher (Cyornis tickelliae) is split into Tickell’s Blue-flycatcher (Cyornis tickelliae) and Indochinese Blue-flycatcher (Cyornis sumatrensis). Tickell’s occurs mostly on the Indian subcontinent, east to Bangledesh, N Myanmar, and Yunnan, China while Indochinese occurs from Myanmar to Vietnam and south through Thailand and Malaysia to NE Sumatra, Indonesia. :

- Tickell’s Blue-flycatcher (Cyornis tickelliae)
- Indochinese Blue-flycatcher (Cyornis sumatrensis)

    Size : 14–15 cm

    

    Subspecies (3) and Distribution

• Cyornis sumatrensis indochina Chasen & Kloss, 1928, Da Ban, southern Annam)
  –  SE Myanmar, Thailand (except C and S), Cambodia, S Laos and C Vietnam (Annam).
• Cyornis sumatrensis sumatrensis (Sharpe, 1879, Sumatra. Type of Malacca make, fide Robinson and Kinnear 1928)
  – S Myanmar (Tenasserim), S Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia, also NE Sumatra (one record from R Tasik, lowland Langkat.
• Cyornis sumatrensis lamprus (Oberholser, 1917, Pulo Jimaja, Anambas Islands)
  – Anambas Is, off E Peninsular Malaysia.

Distribution Map

Cyornis sumatrensis ssp. sumatrensis
Date : 20 September 2025

Location : Hutan Lipur Bukit Ayer, Kangar, Perlis

Cyornis sumatrensis ssp. sumatrensis
Date : 21 July 2022

Location : Penang City Park (Youth Park), Georgetown, Daerah Timur Laut, Pulau Pinang

Cyornis sumatrensis ssp. sumatrensis
Date : 21 July 2022

Location : Penang City Park (Youth Park), Georgetown, Daerah Timur Laut, Pulau Pinang

Cyornis sumatrensis ssp. sumatrensis
Date : 12 September 2021

Location : Gua Tempurung, Gopeng, Mukim Teja, Daerah Kampar, Perak

Cyornis sumatrensis ssp. sumatrensis
Date : 28 April 2016

Location : Air Hitam Dalam Educational Forest, Sungai Dua, 
Daerah Seberang Perai Utara, Pulau Pinang

Cyornis sumatrensis ssp. sumatrensis
Date : 28 April 2016

Location : Air Hitam Dalam Educational Forest, Sungai Dua, 
Daerah Seberang Perai Utara, Pulau Pinang

Cyornis sumatrensis ssp. sumatrensis
Date : 28 April 2016

Location : Air Hitam Dalam Educational Forest, Sungai Dua, 
Daerah Seberang Perai Utara, Pulau Pinang