True Redstarts
Phoenicurus
Phoenicurus is a genus of passerine birds in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae, native to Europe, Asia and Africa. Along with three other closely related genera, they are named redstarts from their orange-red tails ('start' is an old name for a tail). They are small insectivores, the males mostly brightly coloured in various combinations of red, blue, white, and black, the females light brown with a red tail. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2010...
15 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 14 known species
Black Redstart
speciesPhoenicurus ochruros
Common Redstart
speciesPhoenicurus phoenicurus
Daurian Redstart
speciesPhoenicurus auroreus
Plumbeous Water Redstart
speciesPhoenicurus fuliginosus
White-capped Redstart
speciesPhoenicurus leucocephalus
Moussier's Redstart
speciesPhoenicurus moussieri
Blue-fronted Redstart
speciesPhoenicurus frontalis
White-winged Redstart
speciesPhoenicurus erythrogastrus
Rufous-backed Redstart
speciesPhoenicurus erythronotus
Hodgson's Redstart
speciesPhoenicurus hodgsoni
Blue-capped Redstart
speciesPhoenicurus coeruleocephala
White-throated Redstart
speciesPhoenicurus schisticeps
Ala Shan Redstart
speciesPhoenicurus alaschanicus
Luzon Water Redstart
speciesPhoenicurus bicolor
Common × Black Redstart
hybridPhoenicurus ochruros × phoenicurus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 12989.