Flycatchers apart from those Jungle Flycatchers in general are colorful birds. Within the Flycatchers family there is yet another batch of birds that are lean towards having a blue tone. The page for Flycatchers was getting to be too large a page for posting, I took the opportunity to split the birds up and into a dedicated page for easier recognistion.

The Hill Blue Flycatcher may appear to be bulkier at 15 cm long. There is a possibility of sighting 2 sub-species in Malaysia. One has almost settled down as a resident and another a winter visitor. Gauged by the tone of the rufous colored breast. Unknown to me these pictures taken in the low hills of Pangsoon as well as sub-montane Bukit Tinggi could be featuring both birds.

This bird has its origin in areas like the southern-eastern foothills of the Himalayas, Java and Borneo Island. As mentioned earlier is a resident as well as Winter visitor to Malaysia. The sighting in Pangsoon was isolated whereas the birds confirmed to be a visitors were linked to  sub-montane places such as The Awana and Bukit Tinggi.

This bird prefers the middle to lower storey, choosing a series of favorite perches and wandering the area with these perches. It could be a long wait when the bird had wandered off and returning to the perch stalked. The female though sighted in the same area was never together with the male and very watchful for human presence.

The Mangrove Blue of 14.5 cm is a bird of the scrub and under growth but it is not a ground bird. It has lots of similarity with the other "Blue" Flycatchers of the forest but made it distinct for ID is its habit on staying near the forest floors of the Mangrove forest.

The origin of the bird is traced to the Greater Sundas, Philippines and Sulawesi. It is a resident of Malaysia. Both the male and female were easily spotted if they are around the area as they tends to hang around a preferred locality.

This is a bulky Flycatcher at 17 cm larger and more prominent than most Flycatchers. This is one of the 2 Flycatchers with that distinctive pale blue hue, the other being the Verditer Flycatcher.

The way to distinguish between the 2 birds is the Pale Blue Flycatcher do not have the black lores around the eyes.

This origin of this bird was traced to the Indian sub-continent and the  Greater Sundas and is now a fairly common resident in peninsula Malaysia. This is a forest bird of the lowlands and mountain with sub-montane climates and more often seen in the highlands. The bird prefers the middle storey of low and tall trees, that sometimes could place its perch rather high up from the ground. Very common in Frasers Hills and most hill resorts. As for lowland forest, seen them a few times in Perdik.

This is a montane bird of Flycatcher size -14 cm. Endemic and confined to the Borneo Island, Sumatra and Java. Even in Borneo itself the bird was found only is some mountain peaks such as Mount KK, Gunong Pagon and Ulu Temburong in Sarawak  Then in Kalimantan - Gunong Lunjut and Kayan Mentarang

If they are where they, is a common resident and very tame with little fear of the closeness of humans. It perched on the outer branches of forest edge scrubs. Both male and female sharing same appearance. The amount of white in the tail is very variable.
Nesting is also around the same place at eye level. All my pictures  were taken in the National Park of Mount Kota Kinabalu and there is no need to search for them.