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The adult male Paradise Flycatcher is a silvery white bird, with metallic black crested head and two long, narrow ribbon-like feathers in the tail. Young male, and female, are chestnut coloured above, and greyish white below, very much like a bulbul in overall appearance. It is found singly or in pairs, in wooded country. It frequents shady groves and gardens, often about human habitations, and light deciduous jungle with bamboo-clad ravines. It has a harsh grating call, supplemented during breeding season by some pleasanter notes, but no song. It eats flies, gnats and other dipterous insects. Its nesting season is from February to July, varying locally. Its nest consists of a compactly woven cup of fine grasses and fibres, plastered outside with cobwebs, built in the crotch or elbow of a twig.
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