The White-bellied Redstart has dark blue males with a white lower belly, while females are mainly brown. In Nepal, it is recorded often in summer and rarely in lowlands in winter.
Males are mostly dark blue, with a white lower belly and orange on both sides of the tail base. Females are mostly dark brown, with a whitish lower belly.
It uses subalpine scrub for breeding and descends in winter to denser scrub and woodland at lower elevations.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.