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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Aves

Family
  
Muscicapidae

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Passeriformes

Redstart The RSPB Redstart

Representative species
  
Black redstart, Daurian redstart, Common redstart, Plumbeous water redstart, Blue‑fronted redstart

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Redstarts are a group of small Old World birds. They were formerly classified in the thrush family (Turdidae), but are now known to be part of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. They are currently treated in four genera, the true redstarts Phoenicurus, the closely related genera Chaimarrornis and Rhyacornis, and one species in the less closely related genus Luscinia.

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Redstart The RSPB Redstart

These are insectivorous ground feeding birds, most of which have the red tail which gives the group its name; "start" is the modern English reflex of Middle English stert, Old English steort, tail of an animal. Most species are migratory, with northern species being long-distance migrants and more southerly species often being altitudinal migrants breeding at high altitude and moving lower down in winter.

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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. Recent genetic studies have shown that the genus Phoenicurus is not monophyletic, but may be made so by the inclusion of Chaimarrornis and Rhyacornis within Phoenicurus; this conclusion is yet to be taken up by the International Ornithological Congress.

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The New World redstarts in the genera Setophaga and Myioborus are not closely related; they are New World warblers in the family Parulidae. Members of the latter genus, with extensive white and no red in their tails, are now more often called "whitestarts".

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Species list

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  • Genus Phoenicurus
  • Przevalski's redstart (Phoenicurus alaschanicus)
  • Eversmann's redstart (Phoenicurus erythronotus)
  • Blue-capped redstart (Phoenicurus caeruleocephala)
  • Black redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros)
  • Common redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus)
  • Hodgson's redstart (Phoenicurus hodgsoni)
  • White-throated redstart (Phoenicurus schisticeps)
  • Daurian redstart (Phoenicurus auroreus)
  • Moussier's redstart (Phoenicurus moussieri)
  • Güldenstädt's redstart (Phoenicurus erythrogastrus)
  • Blue-fronted redstart (Phoenicurus frontalis)
  • Genus Chaimarrornis
  • White-capped redstart Chaimarrornis leucocephalus
  • Genus Rhyacornis
  • Plumbeous redstart Rhyacornis fuliginosus
  • Luzon water redstart Rhyacornis bicolor
  • Genus Luscinia
  • White-bellied redstart Luscinia phaenicuroides

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    References

    Redstart Wikipedia


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