{"id":179580,"date":"2022-04-15T19:20:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T13:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?page_id=179580"},"modified":"2022-04-15T19:20:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T13:50:47","slug":"two-high-altitude-flycatchers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/two-high-altitude-flycatchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Two High Altitude Flycatchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News<\/strong>: Researchers have released a study titled \u2018Impact of climate change on two high-altitude restricted and endemic flycatchers of the Western Ghats, India.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Black-and-orange Flycatcher (Ficedula nigrorufa) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It prefers the leaf-litter, understorey of shola forests, especially among the stunted evergreen forest patches in the sky islands of Western Ghats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IUCN Status:<\/strong>\u00a0\u2018Least Concern\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The male is distinctly black headed with black wings. The female has the black replaced by dark brown and has a light eye-ring.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Nilgiri Flycatcher (Eumyias albicaudatus)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is dark steely indigo blue with some violet-blue on the forehead and darker lores. The female is duller with dark brown on the upperparts and dark grey below.<\/p>\n<p>It was formerly referred to as the Nilgiri verditer flycatcher because of its similarity to the verditer flycatcher.<\/p>\n<p>It is also found above 600 m elevation but more frequently above 1200 m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IUCN Status<\/strong>: Least Concern<\/p>\n<p>Note: Verditer\u00a0is a winter migrant to the Nilgiris, which, however, has distinct dark lores and a lighter shade of blue.<\/p>\n<p><strong><b>Threats<\/b><\/strong>-The study has found that these two species could suffer a loss of 31% and 46% of their range respectively by 2050 due to\u00a0<strong><b>climate change<\/b><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, about 75% of the currently suitable areas of both these species lie\u00a0<strong><b>outside the protected area network<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0in the Western Ghats.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Researchers have released a study titled \u2018Impact of climate change on two high-altitude restricted and endemic flycatchers of the Western Ghats, India. About Black-and-orange Flycatcher (Ficedula nigrorufa) It prefers the leaf-litter, understorey of shola forests, especially among the stunted evergreen forest patches in the sky islands of Western Ghats. IUCN Status:\u00a0\u2018Least Concern\u2019 The male&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/two-high-altitude-flycatchers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two High Altitude Flycatchers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10309,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-179580","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/179580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10309"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/179580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}