Restless Flycatcher: Blue Crown

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves)

Order:

Perching Birds (Passeriformes)

Family:

Monarch Flycatcher (Monarchidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Restless Flycatcher (Myiagra inquieta)

This Photo:

Blue Crown

Other name:

Scissor grinder

Thank you Stephen Fricker & Antoni Camozzato for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
You'd think this was related to the Willie Wagtail. Very similar on first sighting. But they have a white throat, compared to the Willies black throat.
From the front they also look like a White-winged Triller. But the Triller has white patches on it's wings compared with the solid blue/black of the Flycatcher.

This species is protected and classed as

RA (Rare)

under the National Parks & Wildlife, SA, Protection Act

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