Species profile
Rusty-bellied Shortwing
Brachypteryx hyperythra
Quick answer
NE India (Sikkim to Arunachal Pradesh) to sw China (Yunnan)
- Scientific name
- Brachypteryx hyperythra
- Family
- Muscicapidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Brachypteryx
- Conservation status
- Near Threatened
Recording Rusty-bellied Shortwing in your journal
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- African Forest-flycatcher (Fraseria ocreata)
- African Grey Flycatcher (Bradornis microrhynchus)
- African Scrub-Robin (Cercotrichas minor)
- African stonechat (Saxicola torquatus)
- Ala Shan Redstart (Phoenicurus alaschanicus)