Siberian Rubythroat?

[Ramon Quisumbing]

At about 7:00 a.m. today, I was birding at Sepoc Beach, Maricaban Island, Batangas. I was shooting a Pied Fantail on a sand pathway underneath thick "aroma" thornbushes, when an unidentifiable brown bird about the same size but a bit chunkier hopped across the pathway and disappeared in the brush. I was able to take only these 2 documentary shots. I only saw the bright red throat in the photos.

Is this a male Siberian Rubythroat (Luscinia calliope)? The KG says the SR is an uncommon migrant in the northern Philippines.

[steve pryor]

In a word, yes!

[Ramon Quisumbing]

Thanks for the ID confirmation, Steve. This is a lifer for me.