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Azure-crested Flycatcher or Blue-crested Flycatcher, Myiagra azureocapilla

The Azure-crested Flycatcher or Blue-crested Flycatcher (Myiagra azureocapilla) is a species of bird in the monarch flycatcher family Monarchidae. It is endemic to Fiji, where it is found on Taveuni.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Azure-crested Flycatcher or Blue-crested Flycatcher, Myiagra azureocapilla
Endemic on Fiji

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Taxonomy
The Azure-crested Flycatcher was first described in 1875 by ornithologist Edgar Leopold Layard, Administrator of the Government of the Colony of Fiji at the time. Its specific epithet is derived from the Latin azureus 'blue', and capillus 'of the head'. It is also commonly known as the blue-crested broadbill, or the Azure-crested Flycatcher.

It is a member of a group of birds termed monarch flycatchers. This group is considered either as a subfamily Monarchinae, together with the fantails as part of the drongo family Dicruridae,[5] or as a family Monarchidae in its own right.

They are not closely related to their namesakes either, the Old World flycatchers of the family Muscicapidae; early molecular research in the late 1980s and early 1990s revealed the monarchs belong to a large group of mainly Australasian birds known as the Corvida parvorder comprising many tropical and Australian passerines.

More recently, the grouping has been refined somewhat as the monarchs have been classified in a 'Core corvine' group with the crows and ravens, shrikes, birds of paradise, fantails, drongos and mudnest builders.

In 2016, two former subspecies of the Azure-crested Flycatcher were reclassified as a separate species, the chestnut-throated flycatcher.

Description
Measuring 14 cm in length, the azure-crested Flycatcher is sexually dimorphic. The male has light blue crown with slate-blue upperparts, and white underparts. The female in brown above with greyish tinged cheeks and bluish tinged crown. Unusually for the genus Myiagra the bill is bright orange instead of black.

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Conservation status
Azure-crested Flycatcher or Blue-crested Flycatcher, Myiagra azureocapilla
Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2016: e.T103711173A94121418.
doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T103711173A94121418.en. Retrieved 13 January 2018.



From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Sighted: (Date of first photo that I could use) 12 October 2017
Location: Namosi Road

Azure-crested Flycatcher or Blue-crested Flycatcher, Myiagra azureocapilla
Azure-crested Flycatcher or Blue-crested Flycatcher - Myiagra azureocapilla



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