Id Help - North Sikkim/India - 9 (1 Viewer)

[mihir]

Request id help for this bird clicked in dec 2021 (clicked around Lachen). I first thought it was a female Himalayan Bluetail. Not sure now

 

[Andy Adcock]

Kashmir Flycather? With the caveat that I have no books here to check!

 

[andyb39]

Definitely not a Bluetail - what made you suspect one? Did you catch some blue on the tail?

Andy, there are no records of Kashmir here, and that orange-brown wash is too deep and too extensive for one. I think I'd also expect to see a paler throat. The same goes for the przewalskii race of "Siberian" Stonechat.

 

[Grahame Walbridge]

Definitely not a Bluetail - what made you suspect one? Did you catch some blue on the tail?

Andy, there are no records of Kashmir here, and that orange-brown wash is too deep and too extensive for one. I think I'd also expect to see a paler throat. The same goes for the przewalskii race of "Siberian" Stonechat.

Tricky angle, but I'm seeing a fem Rufous-breasted Bush Robin Andy.

Grahame

 

[mihir]

Definitely not a Bluetail - what made you suspect one? Did you catch some blue on the tail?

Andy, there are no records of Kashmir here, and that orange-brown wash is too deep and too extensive for one. I think I'd also expect to see a paler throat. The same goes for the przewalskii race of "Siberian" Stonechat.

i clicked a series of photos of the himalayan bluetail at almost the same spot. while going thru them, spotted this one.

 

[andyb39]

Tricky angle, but I'm seeing a fem Rufous-breasted Bush Robin Andy.

Grahame

That was my suspicion too, which was why I asked Mihir if he saw blue on the tail. I don't see any alternative. But in a reedbed?