Redstart

Redstart
Redstart male
Systematics
Order : Passerines (Passeriformes) Subordination : Songbirds (passeri) Family : Flycatcher (Muscicapidae) Subfamily : Schmätzer (Saxicolinae) Genre : Redstart ( Phoenicurus ) Type : Redstart
Scientific name
Phoenicurus auroreus
( Pallas , 1776)

Female redstart

The Spiegelrotschwanz ( Phoenicurus auroreus ) is a bird art from the genus of redstarts .

Systematics

This species belongs to a Eurasian branch that also includes the black redstart , the field redstart , and the giant redstart , which are believed to be particularly closely related to the redstart , and possibly the alashan redstart . These developed towards the end of the Late Pliocene and the beginning of the Early Miocene , i.e. H. about three to 1.5 million years ago, apart.

distribution

The distribution area is in East Asia and extends from Lake Baikal to Korea and south to Central China . In the west it borders on the area of ​​the superspecies Phoenicurus erythronotus .

swell

1. ↑ Kemal Topaç Ertan: "The evolutionary history of Eurasian redstarts, Phoenicurus ". In: Acta Zoologica Sinica . Vol. 52 (Supplement), 2006, pp. 310-313 ( PDF full text ).
2. ↑ Urs N. Glutz von Blotzheim (Ed.): Volume 11. Passeriformes (Part 2). Aula-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1988 (2nd edition). Part 1, ISBN 3-89104-020-2 , p. 300.

Web links

Commons : Redstart ( Phoenicurus_auroreus )  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Phoenicurus auroreus in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2008. Posted by: BirdLife International, 2008. Accessed January 31 of 2009.
• Videos, photos and sound recordings about Phoenicurus auroreus in the Internet Bird Collection