Siberian Blue Robin

The Siberian blue robin is larger than the European robin. The breeding male is unmistakable, with a blue back and white belly, while the female is dull, with brown upperparts and whitish underparts and dark eyes that stand out on a pale brown face. Three subspecies are recognised. The species was formerly classed with the thrushes, and recent research suggests it and some other East Asian members of Luscinia belong in a new genus. (Spanish Wikipedia, general species account)

It is migratory, breeding along the banks of taiga streams and rivers in southern Siberia and the Far East, particularly in Primorye, in the forests of northeast China, Korea, Japan and Sakhalin, and wintering in Southeast Asia and Indonesia. Its breeding habitat is coniferous forest with dense undergrowth, often beside rivers or at forest edges. It feeds on the ground, mainly on insects and small invertebrates, and in winter also tends to stay in dense vegetation. It is a rare vagrant in Europe. (Spanish Wikipedia, general species account)