Eversmann's Redstart

Eversmann's redstart, also known as the rufous-backed redstart, is one of the larger redstarts, 15–16 cm long with a wingspan of 25.5–27 cm and weighing 15–22 g. The bill and legs are black. The breeding male has a black mask and grey crown and nape, a rufous back and rump and a rufous tail apart from the darker central feathers, dark wings with white patches on the scapulars and primary coverts, and mainly rufous underparts with white on the belly and undertail coverts. Non-breeding and first-winter males are similar but much duller and browner (Wikipedia, general species account).

It breeds in the mountains of Central Asia and southern Siberia from the Tien Shan to the Tarbagatay and Altay Mountains and near Lake Baikal, in forest and woodland reaching 5,400 m, and its wintering range extends from southern Iraq through Iran and Pakistan to the western Himalaya of Kashmir. The song is loud and lively, with a soft croaking call and a whistling call. The clutch is three to six pale green eggs with brownish-grey speckles. SoIB 2023 lists it as a winter migrant of open habitat that eats invertebrates, without a priority category (Wikipedia, general species account; SoIB 2023).