Chinese Rubythroat

How to identify

Field marks

1. Scarlet throat center
2. Black throat sides and breast
3. White forehead and supercilium
4. Male has a blackish tail with a white base and tail tip

Male, female and young

Female has dark brownish-gray upperparts, an indistinct supercilium, smoky-gray underparts, and a whitish throat center.

Voice

Male's song is a highly varied series of thin, high-pitched short notes; gives a sharp “skyap” when alarmed.

Similar species

Siberian Rubythroat

The male of this species has white at the base of the tail and the tail tip, which Siberian Rubythroat lacks.

Where and when it's recorded

Chinese Rubythroat has been recorded at 62 of the 8,276 birding hotspots we track, in 6 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Maguri BeelIndia160 records
2. Balang Shan [General Area]China81 records
3. Balang Shan PassChina75 records

Countries and regions with the most records

IndiaChinaBangladeshThailandJapanNepal

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The Chinese rubythroat (Calliope tschebaiewi) is a small passerine bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is closely related to the Siberian rubythroat which however lacks the distinctive white tail-tips and white tail bases. It was also previously considered conspecific with the Himalayan rubythroat, together called the white-tailed rubythroat.

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