Title
Second record of Rufous-headed Robin Luscinia ruficeps outside its breeding range and a description of its first-winter plumage
Author(s)
Mahood, S. P.;Eaton, J. A.;Leader, P. J.
Published
2013
Publisher
Birding Asia
Abstract
Rufous-headed Robin Luscinia ruficeps is a beautiful and enigmatic bird. It is known to breedonly in the Min Shan range in northern Sichuan province and the Qinling Shan range in southernShaanxi province, China, but has not been seen in the latter since 1905. Other than two records fromWanglang Nature Reserve and one from Huanglongsi Nature Reserve in the 1980s, all records since 1905 have come from two valleys in Juihaigou National Park, Sichuan province (BirdLife International 2001). Within this tiny distribution it is found between 2,400 m and 2,800 m and only in narrow valleys where it occupies areas that support heavily moss-clad successional habitat within deciduous woodland where the vegetation includes stands of riparian willow Salix (BirdLife International 2001). Records from breeding areas span the period mid-May to early August. Outside its breeding grounds there is only one previous record: an adult male caught in a mist-net at 2,180 m on Batu Berinchang, Peninsular Malaysia on 15 March 1963 (McClure 1964).
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