The brilliantly coloured rufous-bellied niltava (Niltava sundara whistleri) male is bright blue flycatcher with an orange belly. The female is brown with a white throat strap and a small blue crescent on the neck. It has also been called the blue-and-orange niltava or black-and-orange niltava, as the male's blue upperparts may look black in poor light. Other names for the bird include orange-bellied niltava, beautiful niltava, or the sundara niltava. The whistleri sub species is named after Hugh Whistler, an English police officer and ornithologist who worked in India and wrote one of the first field guides to Indian birds. It is found in the Himalayas in north India and Pakistan, extending eastward up until Uttarakhand.
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