
Photo: Chris Oldnall · CC BY-SA 4.0
Hemipus picatus
Diet
Insects, mostly gleaned in the mid-canopy
Habitat
Forest, in mid-canopy
Range
Tropical southern Asia, from the Himalayas and southern India hills to Indonesia
The bar-winged flycatcher-shrike is a small passerine of forests in tropical southern Asia, from the Himalayas and the hills of southern India to Indonesia. It is mainly insectivorous, hunting in the mid-canopy and often joining mixed-species flocks, perching upright and gleaning insects. It is black-capped with black wings contrasting with a white body, a white wing slash and a white rump. Males are velvety black and females greyish brown, though this varies by population (Wikipedia, general species account).
The call is a rapid, high tsit-it-it-it or a whriri-whirriri-whirriri. Young birds have a broken white-and-grey pattern like lichen.