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Rufous-Tailed Robin

Luscinia sibilans

The Rufous-tailed Robin, Luscinia sibilans, is a small passerine bird.

It is known by a number of alternative English names: Pseudorobin, Red-tailed Robin, Swinhoe's Red-tailed Robin, Swinhoe's Robin, Swinhoe's Pseudorobin, Swinhoe's Nightingale or Whistling Nightingale.

It is a migratory insectivorous species breeding in forests in the taiga of northeastern Asia and south to Mongolia, and wintering in Southeast Asia and southern China.

The first record in Europe was on Fair Isle, Scotland in October 2004. Another was in Poland in January 2006.

The nest is in a tree and 3-6 eggs are laid.

It is a bird of undergrowth in coniferous woodlands, terrestrial in its habits and insectivorous.

The call of the Rufous-tailed Robin is a chirp or chirrup like an insect or a shrew.