- Calliope tschebaiewi
Identification
14–16 cm (5½-6¼ in)
- Grey upperparts
- Bold white supercilium
- White sub-moustachial stripe
- Ruby-red throat patch
- Black breast
- White belly
Similar Species
Siberian Rubythroat has brown upperparts. Himalayan Rubythroat lacks the white submoustachial stripe.
Distribution
Asia: East Ladakh to northwest China (Gansu), southeast Tibet and extreme northern Myanmar. In winter also in the plains of norteastern India.
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species. It was formerly considered conspecific with Himalayan Rubythroat.
Formerly placed in genus Luscinia.
Habitat
Tall grassy thickets above the tree-line.
Behaviour
Diet
Their main diet consists of insects such as spiders; molluscs and small reptiles. They also eat a lot of caterpillars in the summer.
Vocalisation
Recording by china guy, Sichuan, China May 2011
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017, with updates to August 2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2017. IOC World Bird Names (version 7.1). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
- Avibase
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved February 2017)
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Chinese Rubythroat. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 24 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Chinese_Rubythroat
