Blue-capped Redstart
Phoenicurus coeruleocephalaVigors, NA, 1831
English (US) Blue-capped Redstart
The Blue-capped Redstart (Phoenicurus coeruleocephala) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Muscicapidae (Chats, Old World Flycatchers, and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: montane juniper and pine forest of southern AsiaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Phoenicurus coeruleocephala
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Blue-capped Redstart
- Described by
- Vigors, NA, 1831
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Phoenicura caeruleocephala
- Described by
- Vigors, NA, 1831
- Type locality
- Himalayas.
- Original description
- Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London 1, no.3 p.35
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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