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Phoenicurus auroreus
Size
14–15cm
Weight
11–20g
The Daurian redstart is a small passerine from temperate Asia, 14–15 cm long and 11–20 g. Like all typical redstarts it is strongly sexually dimorphic: breeding males have a grey crown and nape with a lighter forehead and crown sides, a black face and chin, a brownish mantle and wings and a large white wing patch, with the chest, lower back and rump orange and the tail black with orange sides (Wikipedia, general species account).
It breeds in the summer months; a mated pair of the nominate subspecies has been encountered in early May. The cached account gives no diet or nesting information (Wikipedia, general species account).