Rufous-backed Redstart - Phoenicurus erythronotus

General Information

No Images available for the Species. Please Contribute

Common Name : Rufous-backed Redstart
Scientific Name : Phoenicurus erythronotus (Eversmann, 1841)

Order : Passeriformes
Family : Muscicapidae
Taxonomic Group : Passeriformes - Muscicapidae ( Old World flycatchers )

Pictures

No Images available for the Species. Please Contribute

General Species Profile

Taxonomy

Clements Checklist of Birds of the World 6.4 December 2009 Updated

Common Name : Rufous-backed Redstart
Scientific Name : Phoenicurus erythronotus
Order : Passeriformes Family : Muscicapidae (Old World Flycatchers)
Range : Montane forests of central Asia; > to Iran and n India

This Species is Monotypic, No Subspecies

Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World 2006

3rd Edition, 2003. Revised and Corrected per Corrigenda to December 31, 2006

Common Name : Rufous-backed Redstart
Scientific Name : Phoenicurus erythronotus
SubFamily : Saxicolinae (Chats)

This Species is Monotypic, No Subspecies

IOC World Bird Names (version 2.2)

IOC Common Name : Eversmann's Redstart
IOC Scientific Name : Phoenicurus erythronotus

Distribution :
Region : EU Range : c Asia
Order : PASSERIFORMES Family : Muscicapidae
Category : Chats, Old World Flycatchers

A Synopsis of the Birds of India and Pakistan

SYNOPIS NO : 1669

Scientific Name: Phoenicurus erythronotus
Common Name: Eversmann's Redstart

Birdlife International Checklist Ver 3 June 2010

Common Name : Rufous-backed Redstart
Scientific Name : Phoenicurus erythronotus ((Eversmann, 1841))
Birdlife Synonym : Phoenicurus erythronota (10) Eversmann's Redstart (1); Eversmann's Redstart (6); Eversmann's Redstart (15)

BirdLife Redlist Status Year 2010: LC
BirdLife Species FactSheet for Rufous-backed Redstart ( Phoenicurus erythronotus )

Taxonomy Treatment : R

Birdlife Taxonomy Notes : Gender agreement of species name follows David and Gosselin (2002a).

International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources

IUCN Common Name (Eng) : Rufous-backed Redstart, Eversmann's Redstart
Scientific Name : Phoenicurus erythronotus (Eversmann, 1841)
IUCN Redlist Species FactSheet for Rufous-backed Redstart, Eversmann's Redstart ( Phoenicurus erythronotus )

Species : erythronotus
Genus : Phoenicurus
Family : Muscicapidae Order : Passeriformes

IUCN RedList Status : LC

IUCN RedList Criteria Version : 3.1
IUCN RedList Year Assessed : 2008
IUCN RedList Petitioned : N

Oriental Bird Club Checklist Draft Novemebr 2009

Family : MUSCICAPIDAE

Scientific Name : Phoenicurus erythronotus
Common Name : Eversmann's Redstart

Birdlife Checklist Difference : Rufous-backed Redstart

Bibliography

Bibliography of Rufous-backed Redstart ( Phoenicurus erythronotus )
Number of Results found : 5

1. RF Porter; S.Christensen; P.Schiermacker-Hansen , (2004), Rufous-backed or Eversmann's Redstart (Phoenicurus erythronotus), BIRDS OF THE MIDDLE EAST; Poyser, : 152.

2. Krys Kazmierczak; Ber van Perlo , (2000), Rufous-backed or Eversmann's Redstart (Phoenicurus erythronotus), A FIELD GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT; Yale University Press, : 262.

3. K.Mullarney; L.Svensson; D.Zetterstrom; P.J.Grant , (1999), Rufous-backed or Eversmann's Redstart (Phoenicurus erythronotus), COLLINS BIRD GUIDE - BRITAIN & EUROPE; Collins, : 388.

4. Salim Ali; S Dillon RipleyÂ , (1997), No. 1669. Eversmann's Redstart (Phoenicurus erythronotus ) (Eversmann), Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan; Oxford University Press, New Delhi, Volume 8 (Warblers to Redstarts ): 252.

5. Gavrilov, E. I., A. F. Kovshar. , (1972), [The biology of the Red-backed Redstart Phoenicurus erythronotus.], Ornithologia, 10: 234 - 241.

Book Excerpts

The Birds of India - Vol - II Part - I (1863)

White-Winged Redstart (Ruticilla erythrogastra)

499. Ruticilla erythrogastra, Guldenstadt.

Motacilla, apud Guldenstadt - Mot, ceraunia, Pallas - Gould, Birds of Asia, pl. 50 - Horsf., Cat. 472 - R. grandis, GouLD, P. Z. S., 1849 - Blyth, Cat. 983 (In part) - R. Vigorsii, MOORE (the female).

The White-winged Redstart.

Descr. - Male with a narrow band on the forehead, the lores, ear-coverts, throat, fore-part of breast, back, wing-coverts, and apical portion of the primaries and secondaries, deep black ; crown of head, back of neck, and basal portion of the primaries and secondaries, white, the white on the head being tinged with silvery grey; breast, belly, vent, rump, upper and lower tail-coverts, and tail, rich dark rufous.

Bill and legs black. Length 7 inches ; wing 4 1/4; tail 3; tarsus 1 ; bill at front 7/10 : the 4th primary is equal to the 5th and a little longer than the 6th.

This large Redstart has been found In Bootan, Nepal, Kumaon, and Cashmere, chiefly in the higher regions of the Himalayas, rarely lower than 10,000 feet. It is found In summer in the Caucasian hills, frequenting the gravelly hollows of torrents, and breeding In bushes. One pair was seen by Dr. Stewart, near Landour, by the side of a stream, and it is said to frequent mountain streams only, like Chaemorrornis leucocephala.

The Avifauna of British India and its dependencies - Vol I (1888)

Eversmann'S Redstart (Ruticilla erythronota)

401. Ruticilla erythronota, (Eversm)

Bp. Consp. i. p. 297; Blanf. East Pers. u. p. 167; Seebohm, Cat. B. Br. Mus. v. p. 34. Sylvia erythronota, Eversm., Add. Pall. Zoogr. Rosso.-Asiat. fasc. ii. p. 110. Ruticilla rufogularis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 27, pl. lix; Hume, Ibis, 1870, p. 530.-

Eversmann's Redstart.

Adult male in full autumn plumage.- Head and nape grey; a narrow line at the base of the upper mandible; lores, ear coverts and sides of the neck black, each feather more or less conspicuously tipped with brown; back, rump and upper tail coverts bright chestnut, the feathers of the former fringed with brown; scapulars black, also fringed with brown; quills brown ; innermost secondaries darker and with their outer webs margined with white; primary coverts white, broadly tipped with dark brown; greater wing coverts dark brown, narrowly tipped with white ; median wing coverts white; tail bright chestnut, except the two central feathers and the terminal half of the outer web of the outermost feather on each side, which are black, occasionally mixed with chestnut; chin and throat, breast and flanks, bright chestnut, sometimes obscurely tipped with buffish, which is the colour of the belly; under tail coverts shaded with chestnut; axillaries white ; bill, legs, feet and claws black; 4th and 5th primaries sub-equal and longest.

Length.- Wing 3.5 inches ; tail 2.75 to 2.85 ; culmen 0.46 to 0.6 ; tarsus 0.9 to 1.0.

The female is similar to the male, except that the back and under parts (not including the under tail coverts) are greyish brown.

Hab.- Persia, Afghanistan, N.-W. Provinces, Kashgar, and the N.-W, Himalayas generally. Seebohm says it breeds in the pine and birch regions of Turkestan, S.-W. Mongolia, and S.-E. Siberia.

The Fauna Of British India including Ceylon and Burma 1st Ed. Vol II (1890)

Eversmann's Redstart (Ruticilla erythronota)

642. Ruticilla erythronota.

Eversmann's Redstart.

Sylvia erythronota, Eversm. Add. Pall. Zoogr. Ross.-Asiat. fasc. ii, p. 11 (1841). Ruticilla rufogularis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 27, pl. lix; Horsf. & M. Cat. i, p. 306. Ruticilla erythronota (Eversm), Hume, S. F. vii, p. 389; id. Cat. no. 498 his ; Scully, Ibis, 1881, p. 445 ; Biddulph, Ibis, 1882, p. 277; Seebohm, Cat. B. M. v, p. 348.

Coloration. Male. After the autumn moult the forehead, crown, nape, and hind neck are pale blue, nearly concealed by broad slaty-grey fringes; lores, cheeks, point of chin, sides of the head and of the neck, produced round the upper back as a collar, black with narrower slaty-grey fringes; back, scapulars, throat, breast, and flanks chestnut fringed with grey; rump and tail chestnut, the middle pair of feathers black, as also the tip of the outer web of the outermost feather, and the terminal portion of the shaft of all the feathers ; lesser wing-coverts black, tipped with white; median coverts and the inner greater coverts pure white; remaining coverts and the quills brown edged with pale fulvous, the primary-coverts very largely white; abdomen and under tail-coverts pale fulvous ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white with black bases. In summer the fringes are all dropped.

Female, Forehead, crown, nape, back, scapulars, and upper part of rump brown ; lower part of rump and upper tail-coverts chestnut ; tail as in the male; wing-coverts and quills brown, broadly edged with fulvous white; no white on wing; a ring of pale feathers round the eye ; lower plumage greyish brown, tinged with dull orange in places, and paler on the abdomen.

In the dry slate the legs and bill are black.

Length about 6.5; tail 2.9 ; wing 3.4; tarsus .9 ; bill from gape .6.

Distribution. A winter visitor to every portion of Kashmir, extending on the west to Hazara and Afghanistan and on to Asia Minor. The most easterly locality from which I have seen a specimen of this bird is Kotokhai in the Himalayas. In summer this Redstart is found in Turkestan, and even in Mongolia and Siberia, if R. alaschanica, Prjev., should prove to be the same species, as is probable.

The Fauna Of British India including Ceylon and Burma 2nd Ed. Vol II (1924)

Eversmann's Redstart (Phaenicurus erythronotus)

(529) Phaenicurus erythronotus.

Eversmann's Redstart.

Sylvia erythronota Eversm., Add. ad Pall. Zoog. Rosso-As., ii, p. 11 (1841) (Altai). Ruticilla erythremia. Blanf. & Oates, ii, p. 94.

Vernacular names. None recorded.

Description. - Adult male in Summer. A frontal line, lores, cheeks, point of chin and sides of neck black produced round the back of the neck as a not very distinct collar; crown, nape and hind neck pale ashy-blue, the nape and hind neck almost always with the ashy-grey fringes of the winter plumage still obscuring the blue ; back, scapulars, throat, breast and flanks chestnut, to some extent fringed above with grey and below with white; rump chestnut, tail the same but with the central pair of feathers and the tips of the outermost pair dark brown; wings dark brown, the quills edged with grey, the greater and median coverts broadly edged with pale fulvous ; the inner coverts pure white forming a very conspicuous wing-patch; the primary-coverts are also broadly edged with white; abdomen and under tail-coverts fulvous-white to almost pure white.

After the Autumn moult the blue of the head is completely concealed by ashy-grey fringes; the chestnut of the back and the black collar hardly show and the fringes on the black parts of the head and on the chestnut breast are broader and obscure the other colours.

Colours of soft parts. Iris dark brown or blackish brown; bill and feet black, the mouth yellowish or flesh-colour.

Measurements. Total length about 163 to 167 mm.; wing 84 to 89 mm.: tail 64 to 70 mm.; tarsus about 23 mm. (to 26, Whistler); culmen about 10 to 12 mm. (" culmen from skull Li to 16.5 mm.," Whistler).

Adult female. Upper parts, sides of head and neck and wings brown; the winglet mostly white, the median coverts with broad fulvous edges and a white patch but much smaller than in the male and much mottled with brown; rump, upper tail-coverts and tail as in the male; an indistinct ring of white feathers round the eye; lower plumage pale grey-brown, tinged here and there with rufous-orange and paler on abdomen and vent; lower tail-coverts pale fulvous.

Measurements. The female is practically the same size as the male; wing 82 to S8 mm.

The Young have the dark feathers of the upper parts streaked with fulvous and the breast mottled.

Distribution. Breeding in Turkestan, Trans-Caspia and East Persia, and wandering in winter to South Persia, Afghanistan and Kashmir. Marshall found it common near Quetta, Whitehead at Kohat and Kurram. Koto thai in. the Himalayas still remains the most Eastern point at which it has been obtained, but to the South its previously recorded limit has been greatly extended by Mr. H. Whistler, who found it to be a common winter visitor to the Jhang District in the Punjab.

Nidification. Eggs sent me from Turkestan and also some described by Nehrkorn are very like the eggs of Saxicola torquata indica in coloration, but in shape are more narrow and pointed, and in texture harder and more glossy. The reddish markings are scattered all over the eggs and do not form definite rings as in the Bush-Chat's eggs. They measure about 18.4.xl3.9 mm.

The nest was said to have been built in an old wall and to have been made of grass, moss and roots lined with wool

Habits. Eversmann's Redstart is said to frequent open spaces in well-wooded country, and to be a land-haunter rather than one of streams and rivers. "Whitehead says that its call sounds like a croaking "gre-er " and Whistler says that its ordinary call-note is a softer edition of this sound. The latter also refers to its habit, common to both sexes, of flirting the tail up and down above the level of the back, whereas in the common Redstart it is only shivered.

The Fauna Of British India including Ceylon and Burma 2nd Ed. Vol VII (1930)

Phoenicurus erythronotus

Phoenicurus erythronotus Eversmann.

Sylvia erythronota Eversmann, Addenda Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., fasc., ii, p. 11, 1841: Altai.

Ruticilla rufogularis Horsfield & Moore, Cat. Birds Mus. E. I. Co., vol. i, p. 306, Nov. 8, 1854: Puchut; Moore, P. Z. S., 1854, p. 27, pl. lix, Jan. 10, 1855.

Museum Collections

Number of Museum Specimen Records Found : 26 for Phoenicurus erythronotus

No.	Museum	Species	Collection Deatils	Collector	Date of Collection	Record	Locality	GBIF Portal Link
1	University of Michigan Museum of Zoology	Phoenicurus erythronota	UMMZ Bird 79243	Koelz, Walter N	1933-01-08 00:00:00.0	Specimen	Kulu Kulu Himachal Pradesh India Southern Asia	Link
2	University of Michigan Museum of Zoology	Phoenicurus erythronota	UMMZ Bird 79244	Koelz, Walter N	1933-01-08 00:00:00.0	Specimen	Kulu Kulu Himachal Pradesh India Southern Asia	Link
3	University of Michigan Museum of Zoology	Phoenicurus erythronota	UMMZ Bird 79248	Koelz, Walter N	1933-01-08 00:00:00.0	Specimen	Kulu Kulu Himachal Pradesh India Southern Asia	Link
4	University of Michigan Museum of Zoology	Phoenicurus erythronota	UMMZ Bird 79245	Koelz, Walter N	1933-01-09 00:00:00.0	Specimen	Kulu Kulu Himachal Pradesh India Southern Asia	Link
5	University of Michigan Museum of Zoology	Phoenicurus erythronota	UMMZ Bird 79246	Koelz, Walter N	1933-01-09 00:00:00.0	Specimen	Kulu Kulu Himachal Pradesh India Southern Asia	Link
6	University of Michigan Museum of Zoology	Phoenicurus erythronota	UMMZ Bird 79247	Koelz, Walter N	1933-01-09 00:00:00.0	Specimen	Kulu Kulu Himachal Pradesh India Southern Asia	Link
7	University of Michigan Museum of Zoology	Phoenicurus erythronota	UMMZ Bird 79249	Koelz, Walter N	1933-01-09 00:00:00.0	Specimen	Kulu Kulu Himachal Pradesh India Southern Asia	Link
8	University of Michigan Museum of Zoology	Phoenicurus erythronota	UMMZ Bird 79250	Koelz, Walter N	1933-01-10 00:00:00.0	Specimen	Kulu Kulu Himachal Pradesh India Southern Asia	Link
9	University of Michigan Museum of Zoology	Phoenicurus erythronota	UMMZ Bird 180794	Koelz, Walter N	1939-10-13 00:00:00.0	Specimen	Burchas Pass Afghanistan Southern Asia	Link
10	Yale University Peabody Museum	Phoenicurus erythronota	YPM ORN ORN.061294	R. A. Paynter	1958-11-20 00:00:00.0	Specimen	Parachinar Kurram District North-West Frontier Province Pakistan Southern Asia	Link
11	Yale University Peabody Museum	Phoenicurus erythronota	YPM ORN ORN.061291	R. A. Paynter	1958-11-21 00:00:00.0	Specimen	Parachinar Kurram District North-West Frontier Province Pakistan Southern Asia	Link
12	Yale University Peabody Museum	Phoenicurus erythronota	YPM ORN ORN.061289	R. A. Paynter	1958-11-22 00:00:00.0	Specimen	Parachinar Kurram District North-West Frontier Province Pakistan Southern Asia	Link
13	Yale University Peabody Museum	Phoenicurus erythronota	YPM ORN ORN.061290	R. A. Paynter	1958-11-22 00:00:00.0	Specimen	Parachinar Kurram District North-West Frontier Province Pakistan Southern Asia	Link
14	Yale University Peabody Museum	Phoenicurus erythronota	YPM ORN ORN.061286	R. A. Paynter	1958-11-23 00:00:00.0	Specimen	Parachinar Kurram District North-West Frontier Province Pakistan Southern Asia	Link
15	Yale University Peabody Museum	Phoenicurus erythronota	YPM ORN ORN.061284	R. A. Paynter	1958-12-10 00:00:00.0	Specimen	Hazara District Pakistan Southern Asia	Link
16	Yale University Peabody Museum	Phoenicurus erythronota	YPM ORN ORN.061287	R. A. Paynter	1958-12-11 00:00:00.0	Specimen	Hazara District Pakistan Southern Asia	Link
17	Yale University Peabody Museum	Phoenicurus erythronota	YPM ORN ORN.061288	R. A. Paynter	1958-12-11 00:00:00.0	Specimen	Hazara District Pakistan Southern Asia	Link
18	Yale University Peabody Museum	Phoenicurus erythronota	YPM ORN ORN.061295	R. A. Paynter	1958-12-11 00:00:00.0	Specimen	Hazara District Pakistan Southern Asia	Link
19	Yale University Peabody Museum	Phoenicurus erythronota	YPM ORN ORN.061297	R. A. Paynter	1958-12-11 00:00:00.0	Specimen	Hazara District Pakistan Southern Asia	Link
20	Yale University Peabody Museum	Phoenicurus erythronota	YPM ORN ORN.061285	R. A. Paynter	1958-12-12 00:00:00.0	Specimen	Hazara District Pakistan Southern Asia	Link
21	Yale University Peabody Museum	Phoenicurus erythronota	YPM ORN ORN.061293	R. A. Paynter	1958-12-12 00:00:00.0	Specimen	Hazara District Pakistan Southern Asia	Link
22	Yale University Peabody Museum	Phoenicurus erythronota	YPM ORN ORN.061292	R. A. Paynter	1958-12-15 00:00:00.0	Specimen	Hazara District Pakistan Southern Asia	Link
23	Yale University Peabody Museum	Phoenicurus erythronota	YPM ORN ORN.061296	R. A. Paynter	1958-12-16 00:00:00.0	Specimen	Hazara District Pakistan Southern Asia	Link
24	Yale University Peabody Museum	Phoenicurus erythronota	YPM ORN ORN.122614	F. C. Sibley	1975-01-19 00:00:00.0	Specimen	Quetta Quetta-Pishin District Baluchistan Province Pakistan Southern Asia	Link
25	Yale University Peabody Museum	Phoenicurus erythronota	YPM ORN ORN.107342	F. C. Sibley	1975-01-27 00:00:00.0	Specimen	Campbellpur District Baluchistan Province Pakistan Southern Asia	Link
26	Yale University Peabody Museum	Phoenicurus erythronota	YPM ORN ORN.122611	F. C. Sibley	1975-01-31 00:00:00.0	Specimen	Campbellpur District Baluchistan Province Pakistan Southern Asia	Link

Biodiversity occurrence data provided by: (Accessed through GBIF Data Portal, 2009-08-06)

Data Providers

University of Michigan Museum of Zoology ( 9 Records )

Yale University Peabody Museum ( 17 Records )

Sound/Call

No Calls AvialableThe Bird Calls are embedded through xeno-canto.org See Terms of Use xeno-canto.org

Links

Cite this website along with its URL as:
Anonymous. 2013 Phoenicurus erythronotus - Eversmann, 1841 (Rufous-backed Redstart ) in Deomurari, A.N. (Compiler), 2010. AVIS-IBIS (Avian Information System - Indian BioDiversity Information System) v. 1.0. Foundation For Ecological Security, India retrieved on 05/23/2013

Show More Social Media Icons