๐Ÿพ What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Rufous-backed Redstart live?

Phoenicurus erythronotus has 4,267 records in 21 countries and territories, from 1840 to 2026. Most records come from Kazakhstan.

Rufous-backed Redstart
Rufous-backed Redstart โ€” Photo: Francesco Veronesi from Italy ยท CC BY-SA 2.0 ยท Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataAvesPasseriformesMuscicapidaePhoenicurus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Kazakhstan 976
Kyrgyzstan 869
Mongolia 479
Iran 342
India 341
Russia 333
United Arab Emirates 213
China 188
Uzbekistan 180
Tajikistan 120
Oman 76
Pakistan 75
Kuwait 39
Nepal 16
Qatar 9
Saudi Arabia 3
Afghanistan 2
Estonia 2
Turkmenistan 2
Azerbaijan 1
Japan 1

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months โ€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map โ€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.