Black Redstart Did you see this animal?
Scientific Name : Phoenicurus fuliginosus
Family : Muscicapidae
Order : Passeriformes
Class : Aves
Phylum : Chordata
Habitat : Villages, Bushes
Description : The Black Redstart is a small brownish-black passerine with a rufous tail (length 15 cm, weight 16 g, wing 8.7 cm, bill 1.5 cm, tarsus 2.5 cm, tail 6 cm approximately). The male is visibly different from the female. The male looks black from above and the front. Its forehead, ear-coverts, lores, sides of the neck, chin, throat and breast are black. It has a dark slaty mantle, back and wings and a rufous lower breast, belly and sides to its tail. The female looks dusky brown from above and pale fulvous-brown below. It has a rufous-orange wash on its flanks and belly, and rufous sides to its tail. It feeds mainly on insects, especially small beetles. It breeds in May-August in the Himalayas.
Distribution in Bangladesh
Other Species from Group
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Turdus obscurus
(Tibetan Blackbird) -
Muscicapa dauurica
(Spotted Flycatcher) -
Phoenicurus frontalis
(White‑capped Water-redstart) -
Tarsiger hyperythrus
(Himalayan (Orange-flanked) Bush-robin) -
Muscicapa ferruginea
(Brown-breasted Flycatcher) -
Ficedula superciliaris
(Little Pied Flycatcher) -
Cyornis magnirostris
(Hill Blue-flycatcher) -
Zoothera monticola
(Scaly Thrush) -
Enicurus immaculatus
(White‑crowned Forktail) -
Calliope tschebaiewi
(White‑tailed Blue Robin)
Species groups
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Bee-eaters -
Booby -
frigatebird -
phalarope -
tropicbird -
Martins and Swallows -
Crows, Drongos & allies -
Woodpeckers -
Eared Nightjars -
Ibises & Spoonbills -
Trogons -
Coucals -
Pelicans -
Darters -
Gulls -
Warblers and allies -
Flowerpeckers & Sunbirds -
Sparrows, Wagtails, Pipits a& allies -
moonbird -
Hawks & Eagles -
Snipes, Sandpipers, Plovers & allies -
Small Kingfishers -
Cisticola & Prinia -
Plovers & Lapwings -
Rails, Gallinules & Coots -
Tits -
Parrots -
Rosefinches and Buntings -
Bustards -
Grebes -
Pheasants & Partridges -
Old World flycatcher -
Starlings and Mynas -
Hornbills -
Buttonquails -
Rollers -
Bluebirds -
Crested Kingfishers -
Cormorants -
Pigeons and Doves -
Jacanas -
Typical Owl -
Finfoots &booby -
Flamingo -
Herons and Bitterns -
Treecreepers -
Nuthatch -
Barbets -
Treeswifts -
Swifts -
Crab-plovers, Coursers and Pratincoles -
Bulbuls -
Frogmouths -
Larks -
Storks -
Broadbills -
Thick-knees -
Painted-snipes -
Nightjars -
Barn-owls -
Large-billed Kingfishers -
Falcons -
Pittas -
Cranes -
Whistling-ducks -
Ducks, Geese & Swans -
Hoopoe
References:
description written by:Sharmin Rahman,Department of Zoology, Jagannath University,Dhaka;information source: Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol-26, iucnredlist.org;Photo credit and copyright:Syed Abbas (Birdwing,Bangladesh);taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;bird song owner:Aladdin(www.xeno-canto.org/Aladdin), bird sound copyright reserved according to www.xeno-canto.org rules; more information, please contact us.
description written by:Sharmin Rahman,Department of Zoology, Jagannath University,Dhaka;information source: Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol-26, iucnredlist.org;Photo credit and copyright:Syed Abbas (Birdwing,Bangladesh);taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;bird song owner:Aladdin(www.xeno-canto.org/Aladdin), bird sound copyright reserved according to www.xeno-canto.org rules; more information, please contact us.