
Photo: Imran Shah from Islamabad, Pakistan · CC BY-SA 2.0 (May be cropped or resized)
Phoenicurus frontalis
Diet
Invertebrates (SoIB guild)
Habitat
Temperate forest
Range
Breeds in central China and the Himalaya; winters in the southern foothills, southern Yunnan, the Patkai and northern Indochina
The blue-fronted redstart is a bird of the Old World flycatcher family that breeds in central China and the Himalaya, where it winters in the southern foothills, as well as in southern Yunnan, the Patkai and northern Indochina. Its natural habitat is temperate forest, and the female is brownish-grey with paler underparts (Wikipedia, general species account).
The cached account is short and gives no measurements, diet or breeding information. SoIB 2023 rates it a Moderate conservation priority, a resident and altitudinal migrant of non-specialised habitat that eats invertebrates, with a Moderate range of about 153,000 km² and a decline of about 57% over the long term (Wikipedia, general species account; SoIB 2023).