Gray-headed Flycatcher (Culicicapa ceylonesis)
Order: PASSERIFORMES
Family: MUSCICAPIDAE Flycatchers
Scientific name: Culicicapa ceylonesis
English name: Gray-headed Flycatcher
Characteristic: Size 13 cm. A small bird with short crest; throat and upper breast grey, upperpart greenish yellow and the underpart bright yellow.
Distribution: Pakistan, India, Southern China, Southeast Asia and the Greater Sundas.
Habitat: Mixed deciduous forest, dry evergreen forest to hill evergreen forest. In Sakaerat forest, it occers in the dry dipterocarp forest in the compound of the Main Station.
Habit: Rather tame; haunting clearing along roadsides and along forest streams. In breeding season, it keeps in pairs, and will stay singly in other seasons, and occasionally observed to forage in accompany with other small sized insect-eating birds, when it patrols from low branches up to the moderate heights. Inserct preys will be caught from a perch. Breeding starts from April to June, when a half-cupped-shaped nest is built to accommodate a clutch of 3-4 pale flesh colour eggs spotted and streaked with grey. the incubation time lasts 11-12 days
Status: This bird appears in this country as a resident, a passage migrant and a non-breeding visitor. Those seen in Sakaerat forest during September and January are assumed to be a migrant. It is proteced legally as a protected wild animal.
