Indian paradise flycatcher male at Ananthagiri Hills, in Rangareddy district of Andhra Pradesh, India. The monarchs are a diverse family of passerine birds that are generally arboreal (with the exception of the magpie-larks). They are mostly slim birds and possess broad bills.

The black-naped monarch or black-naped blue flycatcher (Hypothymis azurea) is a passerine bird belonging to the family of monarch flycatchers found in southern and south-eastern Asia.

2020年3月4日 · Monarch Flycatchers (Monarchidae), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (S. M. Billerman, B. K. Keeney, P. G. Rodewald, and T. S. Schulenberg, Editors). Cornell Lab of …

The Monarch Flycatchers comprise a family of passerine birds which includes shrikebills, paradise-flycatchers, and magpie-larks. Monarchids are small insectivorous songbirds with long tails and broad bills. Their plumage ranges from somber to spectacular. They inhabit forest or woodland across sub-Saharan Africa, southeast Asia, and Australasia.

The most striking monarchids are the paradise flycatchers (Terpsiphone, or Tchitrea) found in tropical Africa and Asia, north through eastern China and Japan. About 10 species are recognized, but the taxonomy is extremely confused because of …

The paradise flycatchers of the genus Terpsiphone have the widest distribution of any of the monarchs, ranging across almost all of sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, the Mascarenes and Seychelles, South, East and Southeastern Asia as far as Korea, Afghanistan, the Philippines and the Lesser Sundas.

The black-naped monarch or black-naped blue flycatcher (Hypothymis azurea) is a slim and agile passerine bird belonging to the family of monarch flycatchers found in southern and south-eastern Asia. They are sexually dimorphic, with the male having a distinctive black patch on the back of the head and a narrow black half collar ("necklace ...

The paradise-flycatchers and monarchs are the most impressive and colorful of the flycatcher-like birds. Formerly considered to be part of the 'true' flycatchers (Muscicapidae), they have now been separated into a family of their own, though DNA-DNA hybridization studies suggest that they are closely related to the crows (Corvidae).