A blue bird with delicate feathers that frequently fans out its beautiful orange tail while in flight.
The Old World flycatcher family includes the plumbeous water redstart (Phoenicurus fuliginosus), a passerine bird that is frequently connected to watercourses. The plumage of the mature male is slaty-blue to dark lead coloured throughout, with the exception of the vent, upper tail, and undertail-coverts, which are rufous-chestnut in colour. The abdomen is grayish-white in colour. There are darker flying feathers available, primarily bluish-black. It’s a black bill. Dark brown eyes are present. Feet and legs have the colour of flesh.
The mature female has white rump, bases of outer rectrices, and slaty-grey upper portions. Two white-spotted wing bars are formed by the browner, paler wings.
Together with its white base and outermost rectrices, the tail is also brown. Although it has white patches on its upperparts and is often browner than the female, the juvenile tends to resemble her.
Parts of China, Southeast Asia, and South Asia are home to these birds.
Both inside and outside the forest, rocky rivers and streams are frequented by the Plumbeous Water-redstart. It is present in surrounding damp places, wide mountain streams, small watercourses, and waterfalls.
Insects of all kinds are their favourite food, although they also like eating berries and seeds. It uses perches like branches hanging over the stream or pebbles submerged in the river to execute quick fly-catching sallies.
It also strolls along the water’s edge, wades in the shallows, and takes prey off the surface.
Typically, nesting takes place in March through July. A tidy cup-shaped nest is constructed in a void or a hole in a rock or bridge during this period. They can also be constructed in a tree stump, on a ledge covered with flora, or on a side branch, although they are virtually always close to water. Grass, moss, leaves, and rootlets form the deep cup. Wool, hair, plant fibres, and tiny rootlets fill the inside cup. Three to five light greenish-colored or stone-colored eggs with tiny, darker markings are laid by the female. The female does all of the incubation, although both parents feed the chicks.