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Qilian Bluetail
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Qilian Bluetail
Tarsiger albocoeruleus
The Qilian bluetail (Tarsiger albocoeruleus) is a small passerine bird of Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae. It is distributed in north-central China, was described by Wilhelm Meise as a subspecies of the red-flanked bluetail in 1937. The subspecies was previously considered invalid, until recognized by Hadoram Shirihai and Lars Svensson in 2018, and it was proposed to be a full species in a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2022. It is distinctive in genetics and vocalisation, but...
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1587675.