Lanka Arangaya - Sri Lankan Whistling -Thrust (Myophonus blighi)

Identification
Head and neck is black in color. Shoulder, dorsal area and brest are dark blue. Bright blue shoulder patch can be seen in male. Flight fethers rump,main tail are blackish bround.Beak and feet are black. Iris is broun. Belly is brown

Female is more browner. Her shoulder patch is pale. The plumage of imature bird is more beown with little blue.
Behavior
This bird is very shy. They prefer thick under groths. Sometimes it comes out. It can be seen hunting or singing on sticks or rocks beside streams. They prey on creatures like insects, geckos.
The breeding season lies from March to May. But the April is more important. They make the nest on banks or on branchers of  5-10  feet tall tree. The neat is cup shaped.  The “Varalla” and ferns are used as main building materials. Inside the nest is made out of dead leaves. About two white color eggs with pale and  red brown colored patches and strips are laied at a time. But most of the time only a one offspring is born. Haching is done by female, but the feeding is done by both male and female.
Location
They live hidden in place with water flowa at about 3000 feet elevations. They can be seen in thick under growths near flowing streams….They are recorded in Haggala Horton place. Today they are restricted to the higher elevations of central hills. This bird is difficult to find due to it’s shyness.
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