Robin Accentor

The robin accentor is a large accentor, about 17 cm long, a brown bird with a grey head and an orange-red breast. The head and neck are grey while the other upperparts are brown, streaked with black, the throat is a uniform reddish-orange, the belly pale buff and the wing coverts white-tipped. The sexes are similar and have the slender, sharply pointed bill typical of an insect eater (Wikipedia, general species account).

It is a non-migratory species normally resident above the tree line but not as high as the snow line, and small groups of birds may feed together. The cup-shaped nest holds about four blue or green unspeckled eggs. The call is a high trill or a repeated tszi tszi, and the song is musical, rendered as si-tsi-si-tsi-tsu-tsitsi (Wikipedia, general species account).