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Red-flanked Bluetail (Tarsiger
cyanurus) Female
The Red-flanked Bluetail (Tarsiger cyanurus), also known as the
Orange-flanked Bush-robin, is a small passerine bird that was formerly
classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is now more
generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae. It,
and related species, are often called chats.
It is a migratory insectivorous species breeding in mixed coniferous
forest with undergrowth in northern Asia and northeastern Europe, from
Finland east across Siberia to Kamchatka and south to Japan. It winters
mainly in southeastern Asia, in the Indian Subcontinent, the Himalayas,
Taiwan, and northern Indochina. The breeding range is slowly expanding
westwards through Finland (where up to 500 pairs now breeding), and it
is a rare but increasing vagrant to western Europe, mainly to Great
Britain. There have also been a few records in westernmost North
America, mostly in western Alaska.
(from Wikipedia) |