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Eversmann's Redstart (Phoenicurus erythronotus)

Eversmann's Redstart
Photo: Francesco Veronesi from Italy via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Eversmann's Redstart

Eversmann's redstart (Phoenicurus erythronotus), also known as the rufous-backed redstart, is a passerine bird belonging to the genus Phoenicurus. It was formerly classified in the thrush family Turdidae but is now placed in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. It was described by the German biologist Eduard Friedrich Eversmann who is commemorated in the bird's English name.

Source: Eversmann's redstart on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

A real field recording of the Eversmann's Redstart. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.

Listen

Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.

Call (0:05) via xeno-canto.org/457158, licensed CC BY-SA — free for commercial use.

1 recording on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in India, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, United Arab Emirates · xeno-canto lists 17 recordings for this species in total.

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