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Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike

Crows, Drongos, Orioles & Shrikes

Photo: Chris Oldnall · CC BY-SA 4.0

Hemipus picatus

Basic stats

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.

Quick answers

What does the Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike eat?
Insects, mostly gleaned in the mid-canopy
What habitat does the Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike live in?
Forest, in mid-canopy
Where is the Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike found?
Tropical southern Asia, from the Himalayas and southern India hills to Indonesia
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