The Fire-tailed Myzornis has green-and-gold plumage, a dark face mask, and a red tail. It searches flowering shrubs for food in the Himalayas.
Its plumage is emerald green tinged with gold, with a black mask and speckled crown. Crimson feathers mark its short tail; males also have a red throat patch.
It visits flowering shrubs and searches for spiders, insects, small fruits, nectar, and tree sap.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.