Red-flanked Bluetail

How to identify

Field marks

1. Orange flanks contrasting with a white belly
2. Tail and rump blue
3. Throat white; bill small, fine and black
4. Legs and feet slender and black

Male, female and young

Male upperparts deep blue; female and immature male with rufous-brown upperparts, blue confined to the rump and tail, and a dusky breast.

Voice

Call is the “tacc” typical of chats; male sings melancholy trills from treetops.

Where and when it's recorded

Red-flanked Bluetail has been recorded at 990 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 33 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Yeliu IBATaiwan (China)1,996 records
2. Nanhui DongtanChina1,063 records
3. Century ParkChina527 records

Countries and regions with the most records

ChinaJapanSouth KoreaUnited KingdomMongoliaThailandRussiaVietnam

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 red-flanked bluetail (Tarsiger cyanurus), also known as the orange-flanked bush-robin, is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family. It breeds in mixed coniferous forests in northern Asia, parts of central Asia, and northeastern Europe. It is migratory, wintering mainly in southeast Asia, in the Indian subcontinent, the Himalayas, Taiwan (China), and northern Indochina.

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