Blue-capped redstart

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Blue-capped redstart
Male from Uttarakhand, India

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Muscicapidae
Genus: Phoenicurus
Species:
P. coeruleocephala
Binomial name
Phoenicurus coeruleocephala
(Vigors, 1831)
Synonyms
  • Phoenicurus caeruleocephala
Blue-capped Redstart (female) at Pangot, Nainital, Uttarakhand, India

The blue-capped redstart (Phoenicurus coeruleocephala) is a species of

Muscicapidae
.

It is found in most of the

Uttaranchal, to Nepal and Bhutan, and further east to Arunachal Pradesh
and adjoining regions.

Its natural habitat is temperate forests.

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