According to Brazils 'The Birds of East Asia' there are 40 subspecies of Wren. This Red-flanked Bluetail was very confiding, clearly used to the attention of Beijings growing band of bird photographers. A handful of these birds winter around the capital in most years. We eventually got on our way and at midnight we arrived at the Khurkh Bird Ringing Station after a 9hr taxi journey. A Red-flanked Bluetail braving the Beijing winter. The Himalayan bluetail or Himalayan red-flanked bush-robin also called the Orange-flanked bush-robin (Tarsiger rufilatus) is a small passerine bird that was. As it turned out a valuable insight of the work being carried our by the WSCC. Red-flanked Bluetail Tarsiger cyanurus, male, Shanghai Botanical Garden, December.Non-adult male Red-flanked Bluetail are common on passage and as winter visitors in Shanghai.Adult males such as this one are much less commonly noted in Shanghai.The species is found throughout the city-province, from coastal areas and suburbs to urban parks deep in the center city. The male of this bird-of-paradise species sports fantastically long, white tail feathers which as the name suggests resemble beautiful ribbons sometimes reaching 1 metre long. We were asked to go to a meeting with the Director Nyambayar Batbayer of the Wildlife Science and Conservation Centre was very interested in out visit and also gave us an overview of all the projects that were being carried out in Mongolia. Ribbon-Tailed Astrapia (Australasia) Credit: samirjoban.birds. The next morning we thought we would start our final 400km taxi ride to the ringing station, but it didn't work out like that. Its diet is based on insects, also fruits and seeds outside breeding season. It breeds in upper-middle and marginally in upper continental latitudes, exclusively boreal and mountain.
We arrived early morning (+7hrs difference to GMT) dropped off our luggage in the hotel and spent most of the day killing time. Red-Flanked Bluetail ( Tarsiger cyanurus) It's a small passerine bird that lives in the coniferous forests of Eurasia. The next morning was an early 3.5hr flight to Moscow and then a couple of hrs later the connecting 7.5hr flight to Ulaanbaatar the capital of Mongolia. Brightly-colored adult male is unmistakable in range: blazing sapphire blue with orange flanks and white throat and belly. A trip to Worcester to share a car to London with an overnight stay at the Hilton Hotel near Heathrow.
The trip to Mongolia was a long drawn out affair.