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2021-02-13
Samarqand region, Urgut district, Aman-Kutan river |
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White-capped Redstart is a bright colored bird. Background color is black with metal glance which is not well appreciable from distance. The abdomen, rear part of the back, uppertail and large part of the tail are reddish-rufous color. There is the wide black band on the tail's end. The crown is white. Males and females are similar but on carefully contemplation of color especially on breeding time it is probably to behold the difference between males and females. Males have some larger white crown than females. The bright metal glance of the black feathers of breast, neck and craw is observed on males only. These feathers on females are dimmer. White-capped Redstart is a bird on size similar to Eversmann's and Guldenstadt's Redstarts. Birds often up and down the tail like Himalayan Rubythroat or Bluethroat. This character is appropriate to White-capped Redstart only and is distinguished it on other redstarts. It sing on breeding time only. In contradistinction to other redstarts White-capped Redstart lives only near heavy mountains rivers and never far departs from rivers on summer and winter both.
И.А.Абдусалямов "Фауна Таджикской ССР". Том XIX, часть 2. Птицы. Душанбе - 1973.
