![]() ![]() It was in a thicet beside road beside one neighbour who never saw and behind the Indian famly who did. Living in the north I saw some singing their their hearts out, in the next township while working during the census. In St Catharines I used hear Cardinals until their range receded south. Not abeauty but certainly outstanding is the Piliated Woodpecker. Evening and Pine grosbeaks were also seen, Finches Gold, Purple and House were sometimes seen and Pine Siskins, Gold Crested and Ruby Crowned Kinglets. In 1986 we moved 400 km or 250 miles door to door. I first saw them in Niagara-on=the-Lake in 1980, the year I identified House Finches. Evening Grosbeaks are gaudy if you but interesting in their migration pattern. Redpolls I saw two out of seven years Many years we saw only six species until migration, for us ,started with robins and and crows around the beginning of March In a good year beauties included grosbeaks. When living in Central Ontario the species seen varied greatly from year to to year. But these two birds differ as Red-flanked Bluetail is a long-distant migrant and it has more intense blue color in their upper parts whereas Himalayan Bluetail is a short-distant altitudinal migrant.These birds can be seen at Himalayas, Sikkim, Nepal, Northeast India, Thailand (during winter) and South China. Hoary and Common Redpolls, at least, in part for the rarity of their appearance. When not writing, you can find her traipsing after birds, attempting to fish, and exploring the wild places around her home in Brisbane, Australia. ![]() Justine's favorite stories take her into pristine forests, desolate deserts, or far-flung islands to report on field research as it's happening. She has a degree from Princeton University and a master's in Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting from New York University. Hausheer is an award-winning science writer for The Nature Conservancy, covering the innovative research conducted by the Conservancy’s scientists in the Asia Pacific region. Hoary Redpolls are the rarer of the two - look for pale birds with less streaking hiding in flocks of Common Redpolls. Hoary Redpolls have feathers on a greater extent of their bodies than other birds, and sometimes if temperatures get too warm they’ll pluck out their own feathers to help regulate their temperature. They’re found year-round in northern Canada, where Common Redpolls sometimes burrow into the snow to stay warm. 2005)).Hoary & Common Redpolls Photo © nebirdsplus / Flickr (now removed, Creative Commons when added)Īnother irruptive bird and feeder favorite, Hoary and Common Redpolls are well adapted to life in frigid arctic climates. erroneous “ rufilatus (L) = red hair” (Hockey et al. Type, by monotypy, Tarsiger chrysaeus Hodgson." (Ripley in Peters 1964, X, 33). chrysæus, mihi” (Hodgson 1845) " Tarsiger Hodgson, 1845, Proc. Exclusively monticolous dwells in low brushwood solitarily, and is much on the ground, feeding chiefly on small ground insects. Beautiful of blue bird, male Himalayan Bluetail or Orange-Flanked Bush Robin (Tarsiger rufilatus) Photo Formats 3246 × 3246 pixels 10.8 × 10. Bill equal to head, straight, subdepressed, feeble, gradually widening from the tip the upper mandible more than half exceeded by the nareal fosse, and much overlaid by the soft frontal plumes tip of bill obtuse, and nearly unarmed gape rather wide and ciliated wings submedial, round rather than acuminate, firm fifth quill longest 4-6 and 3-7 respectively equal alars and caudals wedged and mucronate tail medial, rounded tarse very elevate, slender and smooth toes ambulant, simple laterals unequal, hinder rather large nails large, slender, simple hind largest. Tarsiger chrysæus, 408, 409." (Hodgson 1844) “Genus Tarsiger, mihi. ger bearing < gerere to carry " Luscinidæ. Type Locality: central and northern regions of hills, Nepal. ![]() 27Ĭategory: Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Tarsiger Protonym: Nemura rufilata Part XIII, Meeting of App. ![]()
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