Blue-fronted redstart

Blue-fronted redstart
male from Sattal near Nainital, Uttarakhand, India
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Muscicapidae
Genus:	Phoenicurus
Species:	P. frontalis
Binomial name
Phoenicurus frontalis Vigors, 1832

The blue-fronted redstart (Phoenicurus frontalis) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae, the Old World flycatchers. It breeds in central China and the Himalayas (where it winters in the southern foothills, as well as in Yunnan, Northeast India and northern Southeast Asia). Its natural habitat is temperate forests. The female is brownish-grey, with paler underparts.

Gallery

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  Male at Mailee Thaatch (10,500 ft.) in Kullu-Manali Distt. of Himachal Pradesh, India
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  Female in Pangot, Uttarakhand, India
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  A particularly bold Blue-fronted Redstart at Deoria Taal, Uttarakhand

References

Media related to Phoenicurus frontalis at Wikimedia Commons