Blue-capped redstart

Blue-capped redstart
	File:Blue-capped Redstart Uttarakhand India.jpg
	Male from Uttarakhand, India
Conservation status
	Least Concern; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Muscicapidae
Genus:	Phoenicurus
Species:	P. coeruleocephala
Binomial name
	Phoenicurus coeruleocephala; (Vigors, 1831)
Synonyms
	Phoenicurus caeruleocephala;

Blue-capped Redstart (female) at Pangot, Nainital, Uttarakhand, India

The blue-capped redstart (Phoenicurus coeruleocephala) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae.

It is found in most of the Himalayas and the northern parts of the Indian subcontinent, with its range extending across Tajikistan and Afghanistan into India, from Jammu & Kashmir eastwards across Himachal Pradesh and Uttaranchal, to Nepal and Bhutan, and further east to Arunachal Pradesh and adjoining regions.

Its natural habitat is temperate forests.

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