Daurian Redstart

The Daurian redstart is a small passerine from temperate Asia, 14–15 cm long and 11–20 g. Like all typical redstarts it is strongly sexually dimorphic: breeding males have a grey crown and nape with a lighter forehead and crown sides, a black face and chin, a brownish mantle and wings and a large white wing patch, with the chest, lower back and rump orange and the tail black with orange sides. It is migratory; the nominate subspecies winters in Korea, Japan, south-east coastal China and Taiwan, and leucopterus in north-east India and parts of Southeast Asia (Wikipedia, general species account).

It breeds in the summer months; a mated pair of the nominate subspecies has been encountered in early May. The cached account gives no diet or nesting information. SoIB 2023 lists it as a winter migrant of non-specialised habitat that eats invertebrates, without a priority category (Wikipedia, general species account; SoIB 2023).