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Philentoma pyrhoptera
Diet
Insects
Habitat
Lowland and hill forest
Range
Sundaland (Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo)
Clutch size
2 eggs
Incubation period
About 14 days
Size
Small–medium (17–19cm)
Wingspan
~25–27cm
Weight
~22–28g
A blue-plumaged flycatcher-like bird with rufous-chestnut in the wings, males showing a rich cobalt-blue head and underparts, typically perching quietly in the forest understorey and mid-storey.
Sallies from a perch to catch insects in flight, favouring the shaded interior of lowland and hill dipterocarp forest across Borneo and the wider Sundaland region.