![]() ![]() The mic was pointed at the closer bird, which was singing from high in a spruce and recorded at a distance of about 50 meters. Natural vocalizations by two red-flanked bluetails in a boreal forest with spruce, pine, birch, and beech. Song, often delivered from treetop at very first light, a rather constant, fast, short, clear, melancholy verse, not unlike Redstart’s but deeper and clearer, ‘itrüchürr- tre-tre-tru-trurr’. Wintering in low mountain in the suburb of Kyoto city. RED FLANKED BLUETAIL SONG DOWNLOADVOICE: Alarm-calls somewhat recall Black Redstart’s: an often repeated, whistling, straight ‘viht’, and a muffled, hard, slightly throaty ‘track’. Download this stock image: A female Red-flanked Bluetail, Tarsiger cyanurus, perches on a the branch of a small bush in a small park near Yokohama, Japan. RED FLANKED BLUETAIL SONG PATCHInstead note orange patch on flanks, dusky breast and grey cheeks framing narrow white bib, also whitish eye-ring. female, 1st-summer male and autumn immatures more modest in olive-grey and off-white and can easily be overlooked, are blue only on uppertail, but this normally looks just dark in field. Call is a 'hueet' or a hoarse 'keck-keck.' Similar Species. Red-flanked Bluetail: Song is a clear whistle or short monotonous warble. ![]() Wing blue or (usually) olive-tinged grey-brown. Red-flanked Bluetail: Eats insects and berries forages on the ground and in trees. IDENTIFICATION: Seen well in good light, adult male is a beautiful bird with dull blue upperparts (only rump, tail-base, wing-bend and crown-side are brighter blue), orange flanks and white underparts. Nests in hollow trunk or stump, in bank among roots etc. Long-distance migrant, winters in SE Asia. Rare breeder in E Finland (arrives from late May). Breeds in taiga, mainly in rolling, upland terrain in undisturbed, damp, mossy spruce forest with some birch. Maryland has already had one Northern Lapwing (4) in the state this year, so a second in Dorchester was something of a surprise.L 13-14 cm. During the summer they breed from Scandanavia. New York had a Smith’s Longspur in Livingston, the state’s 5th. The Red-blanked Bluetail (also known as the Orange-flanked Bush-robin) is a songbird found in Eurasia. John’s is a very nice find.Ĭonnecticut’s 3rd record of Slaty-backed Gull was seen in Stratford. song-types, and allopatric distribution) indicates the two subspecies may. Tis the season for interesting European vagrants to Atlantic Canada, and a Redwing (4) in St. A passerine species Red-flanked Bluetail Tarsiger cyanurus provided a good. We go all the way across the continent for the next noteworthy bird. Up to British Columbia, where a Whooper Swan (3) in Vancouver is a provincial 1st record, coming after a similar record in Washington of a still present individual. This represents the 1st for the state and only the 2nd record for the region. In Oregon, a Cave Swallow in Benton was a surprise, and the fact that it has been well-photographed even more-so. Most records of this East Asian chat come from Alaska where it is annual in the Bering Sea, but there are a small handful of records from British Columbia through California as well.Īnd we stay in the pacific northwest for our 1st records this week. This bird almost certainly overwintered in the ABA Area and is responding to its internal clock causing it to intersect with a homeowner. We saw this in Washington, where a Red-flanked Bluetail (4) in King is arguably the most surprising vagrant in the ABA Area this week, and the 3rd for Washington. The annual urge to move northward brings with it the potential for rare bird across the continent. RED FLANKED BLUETAIL SONG CODERare birds continuing into this week include Oriental Turtle-Dove (ABA Code 4) and Little Stint (4) in California, Social Flycatcher (5) and Golden-crowned Warbler (4) in Texas, and Black-faced Grassquit (4) in Florida. ![]()
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