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Black Redstart (female)

Phoenicurus ochruros

Photo by SukanyaDatta
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Field Notes

Description:

Alert bird with light brown back and belly tinged with yellowish-orange. Short, straight bill.

Habitat:

Foraging on a strip of land cleared for farming in the huge area adjoining the Himalayan high altitude Hemis monastery. It hopped away as I approached.

Notes:

Thank you Lenny Worthington

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Black redstart

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Black Redstart (female)

Phoenicurus ochruros

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LennyWorthington
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SukanyaDatta
LennyWorthington...Thanks so much. I can't believe it but I saw three species of Redstarts in my short trip to Ladakh, India. Thanks, so much for taking the trouble to put a name to the sighting.

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