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 LC    White-capped Water-Redstart* Id (Atlas):
    Phoenicurus leucocephalus

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
White-capped Water-redstart, White-capped Redstart, River Redstart, River Chat

Family
Muscicapidae (Old World Flycatchers And Chats)

Size
18 - 19 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Vigors, 1831)

Habitat
Rivers, streams.

Range (Guide)
Afghanistan (B) (NB), Bhutan, China (mainland), India, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Vietnam.

Eastern Uzbekistan, Tadjikistan and Afghanistan (recently recorded Kyrgyzstan) east through Himalayas to central and north-eastern China, northern Myanmar and northern Indochina.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
A long, sharply whistled 'teeeee' or 'shviiit'. Song is a repeated melancholic whistled phrase 'tieu-yieu-yieu-yieu'.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (29)...)

 
White-capped Redstart (Phoenicurus leucocephalus) [XC472904]
     by Ross Gallardy from Doi Inthanon National Park, Chiang Mai, India (song)

 
White-capped Redstart (Phoenicurus leucocephalus) [XC19902]
     by Brian Cox from Singhalila NP, Darjeeling, Bhutan (call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Has been placed in genus Phoenicurus, but differs in plumage pattern and behaviour.


References
See References.


Files:
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