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 LC    Blue-fronted Redstart* Id (Atlas):
    Phoenicurus frontalis

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Blue-fronted Redstart, Blue-breasted Redstart

Family
Muscicapidae (Old World Flycatchers And Chats)

Size
16 cm

First Described (Guide)
Vigors, 1832

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical high altitude shrubland.

Range (Guide)
Bhutan, China (mainland), India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam.

Unknown to Afghanistan.

Eastern Afghanistan and Himalayas east to southern China, probably including northern Myanmar. Non-breeding northern India east to northern Indochina.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (47)...)

 
Blue-fronted Redstart (Phoenicurus frontalis) [XC491376]
     by Peter Boesman from Forested valley around Dulan, Qinghai, China (song)

 
Blue-fronted Redstart (Phoenicurus frontalis) [XC114764]
     by Mike Nelson from Trashigang, Bhutan (call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Has been considered closest member of present genus to Rhyacornis on account of tail-flirting behaviour. Birds from China reportedly paler, and sometimes separated as a geographical subspecies, sinae.


References
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Files:
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