The Daurian redstart (Phoenicurus auroreus) is a small passerine bird from temperate Asia.

Breeding males have a grey crown and nape with lighter forehead and crown-sides, a black face and chin, brownish mantle and wings and a large white wing patch; the chest, lower back and rump are orange, and the tail is black with orange sides.

[2] Females are warm brown above, paler below, have an orange rump and tail sides, and have a large white wing patch similar to the males.

[2] It was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family (Turdidae), but is now generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher (Muscicapidae).

These all diverged during the latter part of the Late Pliocene and the earliest Early Pleistocene, some 3–1.5 million years ago, during onset of the Quaternary glaciation.