Plumbeous water redstart - Phoenicurus fuliginosus

Common Name :	Plumbeous water redstart.
Binomial Name :	Phoenicurus fuliginosus
Synonym :	Rhyacornis fuliginosus
Family :	Muscicapidae
Photo Taken :	Nepal

Plumbeous water redstart is also known as Plumbeous redstart. This is a flycatcher bird. I've seen this bird during a trekking at Nepal. Binomial name of the bird is Phoenicurus fuliginosus and it belongs to the bird family Muscicapidae. This bird is native to South Asia, Southeast Asia, and China. I've only seen the male bird during my observation.

Plumbeous water redstart (Phoenicurus fuliginosus) is a small passerine bird. Both male and female are different in looks. Male bird is having a dull blue or grayish blue color with a chestnut or rufous colored tail. Near at upper wing the male bird has a touch of faded black. Female bird is pale grey in color with white spot at the ramp. Both male and female are having black beak.

This bird is an insectivore and very expert to catch the small flying insects. They prefer to live near the water stream, river, etc with plenty of flying insects (specially the mayflies). I've seen this bird beside a water stream coming down from the hill near Sundarijal, Nepal. It had plenty of very large boulders beside the fast flowing stream with plenty of shades.

Photos of Plumbeous water redstart (Phoenicurus fuliginosus) were taken from Nepal during July 2015. It was during the holy month of Ramadan. We were doing a mini trekking at the Sundarijal.


This article has written by Lonely Traveler,
for the blog http://icbird.blogspot.com/