Juvenile birds are similar to the adult female although generally the brown upper parts have a spotted buff patternation. The throat, lower breast, belly and vent are an off white. Lacking the male’s prominent supercilium the female has a faint white eye ring. The face and upper breast area are a light brown and the flanks a pale orange, similar to the male. Adult females are an olive brown colour to the upperparts with a blue tail and rump. The bill, legs and feet are a dark grey to black. 'blue-tailed warbler' was one of several english names in use for the red-flanked bluetail ( tarsiger cyanurus) and it seems clear from this description that the bird was indeed an adult male of that species, an occurrence preceding by forty-four years the 1947 record in shetland that added this bird to the british list ( vide scot. The belly and throat are white, flanks are orange-brown, and breast has gray wash. Surely someone mustve trekked up there today.
#RED FLANKED BLUETAIL UPDATE#
Conspicuous by its absence is any update on the mega-rarity in Laramie. Upper wings are blue with darker shading to the primary and secondary flight feathers. Red-flanked Bluetail: Small thrush with blue upperparts, head, and tail. Skip to first unread message Dave Cameron. Flanks are a pale orange in colour and under wings are a greyish brown. (In addition to the mapped range, breeds occasionally in Finland and has also bred in Estonia.) The birds spend winters in Southeast Asia. The upper chest area is an off white tinged buff. The red-flanked bluetail is a common bird in Eastern Europe but rare at the western edge of the range, with numbers varying annually. The supercilium, which is an area of feathers extending from the base of the bill rearwards over the eye, towards the ear covert, is white, as is the chin, throat, belly and vent. This was where the Bluetail hangs out, but was frightened off.
The belly and throat are white, flanks are orange-brown, and breast has grey wash. The main problem was that folks were trying to get a view into my back yard, so they entered my neighbors yard (with permission) and flocked to the back fence. Red-flanked Bluetail: Small thrush with blue upperparts, head, and tail.
The adult male is a gloss dark blue across the upperparts with areas at the base of the tail, rump, shoulders and side of the crown, a brighter steel blue. The end result was that the Bluetail was chased out of my yard, and was not seen for the next two days. Other birds in the Old World flycatchers and chats family What does a Red-flanked Bluetail look like?
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