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    (c) Mourad Harzallah, some rights reserved (CC BY)

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    (c) RenatKorotkov, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) flavioziretti, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Vladimir Bondar, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Tatyana Zarubo, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Иван Матершев, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Whinchat

Saxicola rubetra

Worldwide
35,703 observations
Group
Birds

About

The whinchat (Saxicola rubetra) is a small migratory passerine bird breeding in Europe and western Asia and wintering in central Africa. At one time considered to be in the thrush family, Turdidae, it is now placed in the Old World flycatcher family, Muscicapidae. Both sexes have a strong supercilium, brownish upper parts mottled darker, a pale throat and breast, a pale buff to whitish belly, and a blackish tail with white bases to the outer tail...

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