Güldenstädt's Redstart

How to identify

Field marks

1. Adult male crown white
2. Adult male with a single white wing patch
3. Adult male throat and upper breast black; remaining underparts orange-red
4. Tail orange-red

Male, female and young

Female and immature male brown above and orange-yellowish-brown below, with an orange-red tail.

Similar species

White-capped Redstart

The males are very similar in size, shape and plumage, both with black upperparts and a white crown; male Güldenstädt's Redstart has a white wing patch, which White-capped Redstart lacks.

Where and when it's recorded

Busiest months: May · Most records: China, Mongolia, Georgia

Güldenstädt's Redstart has been recorded at 139 of the 8,276 birding hotspots we track, in 8 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Lingshan Scenic AreaChina307 records
2. Mt. Kuro slopesGeorgia203 records
3. Khovd Bird Ringing Station, Khovd, MNMongolia117 records

Countries and regions with the most records

ChinaMongoliaGeorgiaKazakhstanKyrgyzstanBhutanNepalAzerbaijan

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

Güldenstädt's redstart (Phoenicurus erythrogastrus), also known as the white-winged redstart, is a species of bird in the genus Phoenicurus, family Muscicapidae. It is found in the high mountains of the southwestern and central Palearctic in the Caucasus, Karakoram, Pamir, Himalaya, Tian Shan, and Altai, in the countries of Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bhutan, China, Georgia, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

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