Plumbeous Water Redstart

How to identify

Field marks

1. Male gray-blue
2. Male tail rusty-red
3. Female pale gray, with a white patch on the rump

Male, female and young

Male gray-blue; female pale gray with a white rump; in China, females and one-year-old males have rufous-tinged upperparts.

Where and when it's recorded

Busiest months: December–February · Most records: China, India, Bhutan

Plumbeous Water Redstart has been recorded at 675 of the 8,276 birding hotspots we track, in 11 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Dasyueshan IBA – Hengliu Creek (15K)Taiwan (China)1,087 records
2. Taipei – WulaiTaiwan (China)793 records
3. Nantou – Xitou Nature Education AreaTaiwan (China)636 records

Countries and regions with the most records

ChinaIndiaBhutanNepalThailandVietnamTajikistanPakistan

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 plumbeous water redstart (Phoenicurus fuliginosus) is a passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. It is found in South Asia, Southeast Asia and China. Males are slate blue in colour, while females are grey.

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