Blue-fronted redstart | |
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male from Sattal near Nainital, Uttarakhand, India | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Muscicapidae |
Genus: | Phoenicurus |
Species: | P. frontalis |
Binomial name | |
Phoenicurus frontalis Vigors, 1831 | |
The blue-fronted redstart (Phoenicurus frontalis) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae, the Old World flycatchers. It breeds in central China and the Himalayas (where it winters in the southern foothills, as well as in southern Yunnan, the Patkai and northern Indochina. Its natural habitat is temperate forests. The female is brownish-grey, with paler underparts.
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