Terpsiphone paradisi is also called Asian paradise-flycatcher. It has 14 subspecies. There are two different colors of the male bird, with a body length of about 30 cm. It uses tree barks and grass leaves to build the cup-shaped nest.

 

As an excellent killer of the pest in the forest, it feeds on insects for most of the time.

 

 

Terpsiphone paradisi is rare and precious and requires a high-standard natural environment, mainly inhabiting in northern, central, southern China, most part of southeastern China, southern and eastern Yunnan Province.

 

They mainly live in broad-leaved forest and secondary broad-leaved forest of hills at an altitude below 1,200 meters.

 

They breed in their habitat every year and when the baby birds can fly, they would come back to the south or to the southeast Asia, and then fly back to the homeland where they lived the year before.

 

 

Due to the long-distance journey, climate change and human's killing, the birds are always in danger. In 2012, it was listed on the IUCN Red List of endangered species.

 

In recent years, Yongxing County has strengthened its efforts to protect the eco-environment and develop the ecological tourism, offering a better living environment for more wild animals.

 

From May to August every year, the terpsiphone paradisi will fly to breed in the forests near Yongxing County, which attracts numerous photographers across the county.