European Stonechat
Saxicola rubicola
The male has a black head, a white patch on the side of the neck and an orange-red breast, and likes to perch conspicuously on fence posts or the tops of shrubs. Its clicking call recalls two small stones being knocked together.
- Group
- Songbirds
- Photos
- 4
- Taken
- 2022–2026
Profile: European Stonechat
- Family
- Old World flycatchers (Muscicapidae)
- Size
- approx. 11.5–13 cm
- Weight
- approx. 13–17 g
- Habitat
- Open, rather dry landscapes with scattered bushes and perches, such as fallow land, scrubby meadows, heaths and bogs.
- Diet
- Insects, spiders and other invertebrates, usually taken on the ground from a perch.
- When to see
- Short-distance migrant, resident in southern Europe. In Central Europe roughly from March to October; German breeders winter mainly around the Mediterranean.
Learn more: Wikipedia · NABU (German)