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title: "Red-flanked Bluetail"
description: "Tarsiger cyanurus — Birds. The red-flanked bluetail (Tarsiger cyanurus), also known as the orange-flanked bush-robin, is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/red-flanked-bluetail
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Red-flanked Bluetail

> Tarsiger cyanurus — Birds. The red-flanked bluetail (Tarsiger cyanurus), also known as the orange-flanked bush-robin, is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family.

- Scientific name: *Tarsiger cyanurus*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: `forest` (Forest)
- iNaturalist observations: 6236
- Wikidata: [Q129219](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q129219)
- iNaturalist taxon: [210941](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/210941)

## Names

- en: Red-flanked Bluetail
- de: Blauschwanz
- es: Ruiseñor Coliazul
- fr: Robin à flancs roux
- pt: Pisco-de-flanco-ruivo
- pl: Modraczek zwyczajny

## Countries with the most observations

CN (1951), RU (1031), JP (534), KR (397), HK (340), US (260), TW (144), FI (82), MO (43), GB (31), MN (24), FR (22)

## Summary

The red-flanked bluetail (Tarsiger cyanurus), also known as the orange-flanked bush-robin, is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family. It breeds in mixed coniferous forests in northern Asia, parts of central Asia, and northeastern Europe. It is migratory, wintering mainly in southeast Asia, in the Indian subcontinent, the Himalayas, Taiwan, and northern Indochina.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-flanked_bluetail

## Photo

![Red-flanked Bluetail](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/red-flanked-bluetail/medium.jpg)

Photo: Stephen Matthews · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/19127921

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/red-flanked-bluetail?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).