Alpine Accentor

Prunella collaris erythropygia (Swinhoe, 1870)

2020-10-23 VKO Katon-Karagay	© Vladimir Vorobyov

Description

Dark race. Dark streaking on mantle is heavier; grey colour of breast and middle-breast and brown colour of flanks are much darker than in rufilata. The brown flank feathers show narrow pale edges. The mantle has an ochre wash and the rump and upper tail coverts are ochre-brown.

Distribution

Probably, occurs in Altai.

References

"Птицы Казахстана" том 4. "Наука". Алма-Ата, 1972. Э.И.Гаврилов. "Фауна и распространение птиц Казахстана". Алматы, 1999. Gavrilov E. I., Gavrilov A. E. "The Birds of Kazakhstan". Almaty, 2005.