![]() ![]() VOICE: Alarm-calls somewhat recall Black Redstart’s: an often repeated, whistling, straight ‘viht’, and a muffled, hard, slightly throaty ‘track’. #Bluetail bird Patch#Instead note orange patch on flanks, dusky breast and grey cheeks framing narrow white bib, also whitish eye-ring. Female is brown with a white throat, orange flanks, and pale blue rump and tail. female, 1st-summer male and autumn immatures more modest in olive-grey and off-white and can easily be overlooked, are blue only on uppertail, but this normally looks just dark in field. Himalayan Bluetail - eBird Brightly-colored adult male is unmistakable in range: blazing sapphire blue with orange flanks and white throat and belly. This bird had a habit of pumping its tail and flicking its wings somewhat similar to a. ![]() A bold, solid, and pale eye-ring was obvious. The bird was small, about the size of an Ovenbird, but with the posture of a thrush. Note the buffy tipped greater coverts, indicating a first-winter bird. Wing blue or (usually) olive-tinged grey-brown. Red-flanked Bluetail digi-binned by Jethro Runco. IDENTIFICATION: Seen well in good light, adult male is a beautiful bird with dull blue upperparts (only rump, tail-base, wing-bend and crown-side are brighter blue), orange flanks and white underparts. Nests in hollow trunk or stump, in bank among roots etc. ![]() Long-distance migrant, winters in SE Asia. RM 2AK82T6A Red-flanked bluetail bird, akso known as an orange-flanked bush-robin (Tarsiger cyanurus) perched on twigs in Izumi no Mori park, Yamato. Rare breeder in E Finland (arrives from late May). Brightly-colored adult male is unmistakable in range: blazing sapphire blue with orange flanks and white throat and belly. The Bluetail nests in mountains, preferring a high elevation. Breeds in taiga, mainly in rolling, upland terrain in undisturbed, damp, mossy spruce forest with some birch. The Red-flanked Bluetail is a member of the flycatcher family and is a native bird of Eurasia. ![]()
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