Orange-flanked Bush Robin Luscinia cyanurus

Orange-flanked Bush Robin Luscinia cyanurus
(aka Red-flanked Bluetail Tarsiger cyanurus)

Female Orange-fronted Bush Robin, Kori La, Mongar, Bhutan, April 2008 - click for larger image

Kori La, Mongar, Bhutan
April 2008

The Orange-flanked Bush Robin breeds from Finland across Asia to Kamchatka and Japan. This northern population of the nominate sub-species winters in south and south-east Asia. The sub-species shown here, L. c. rufilatus, breeds along the Himalayas and into south and central China and in the Himalayas it winters at lower altitudes.

Both these photos are of a female showing the olive-brown upperparts, the blue tail, white throat, orange flanks and whitish eye-ring. The male has blue upperparts.

There is additional information available via Avibase.

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