Black Redstart
Phoenicurus ochruros
The black redstart often starts singing well before sunrise, preferring the highest perches available such as roof ridges and gables; its song contains a characteristic scratchy phrase. When perched, it repeatedly quivers its rusty-red tail.
- Group
- Songbirds
- Photos
- 1
- Taken
- 2024
Profile: Black Redstart
- Family
- Old World flycatchers (Muscicapidae)
- Size
- 13–15 cm
- Wingspan
- approx. 26 cm
- Weight
- approx. 14–20 g
- Habitat
- Originally rocky mountain terrain, today mainly villages, towns, industrial sites and building sites with niches on structures.
- Diet
- Mainly insects and their larvae as well as spiders, plus some berries.
- When to see
- Short-distance migrant wintering mainly around the Mediterranean; in Central Europe roughly from March to October/November, with a few birds overwintering.
Learn more: Wikipedia · NABU (German)