Himalayan Rubythroat

How to identify

Field marks

1. Male has a scarlet throat center, with black throat sides and breast
2. Male has a white forehead and supercilium
3. Male has a blackish tail with a white base and tail tip
4. Male has a white belly and white around the vent

Male, female and young

Female is duller, with gray-brown 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 squeaks; alarm call is a sharp “skyap”.

Similar species

Siberian Rubythroat

Siberian Rubythroat lacks the conspicuous white tail base and white tail tip of Himalayan Rubythroat.

Where and when it's recorded

Himalayan Rubythroat has been recorded at 58 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 7 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. SattalIndia153 records
2. Ile Alatau NP – Big Almaty LakeKazakhstan100 records
3. Corbett NP – DhikalaIndia100 records

Countries and regions with the most records

IndiaKazakhstanNepalKyrgyzstanPakistanChinaUzbekistan

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 Himalayan rubythroat (Calliope pectoralis) is a species of passerine bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is found along the Tien Shan and Himalayan ranges from Afghanistan to Myanmar. Three subspecies are recognized across its wide range.

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