The White-throated Redstart is a mountain bird whose food changes with the season. In breeding plumage, the male is strikingly marked with a white throat patch, a dark face, and chestnut underparts.
In breeding plumage, the male has a dusky indigo head, a black face and back, a broad white throat patch, and chestnut rump and underparts.
In spring and summer it makes short flights from a perch to catch flying insects; in winter it mainly takes berries and small seeds from shrubs.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.