Critically Endangered
Cerulean Flycatcher
Eutrichomyias rowleyi
The cerulean flycatcher is a medium-sized (up to 18 cm long), blue passerine with bright caerulean blue plumage, a bare white orbital ring, dark brown iris, bluish black bill and pale blue-grey below.
Appearance
The cerulean flycatcher is a medium-sized (up to 18 cm long), blue passerine with bright caerulean blue plumage, a bare white orbital ring, dark brown iris, bluish black bill and pale blue-grey below. The young has a shorter tail and grey underparts.
Range and habitat
The cerulean flycatcher is endemic to the island of Sangihe, off North Sulawesi in Indonesia. Previously known only from a single specimen collected in 1873, this rare bird was rediscovered in October 1998 around forested valleys of Mount Sahendaruman in southern Sangihe.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
Its diet consists mainly of insects and other small invertebrates.
In crisis
Due to ongoing habitat loss, a small population size, and limited range, the cerulean flycatcher is evaluated as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
Cerulean Flycatcher is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Cerulean Flycatcher, Wikidata item Q282608. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
