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The Whinchat ( Saxicola rubetra ) is a small migratory passerine bird breeding in Europe and western Asia and wintering in Africa.
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Whinchat and Saxicola
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The heaths have strong breeding populations of birds, including Whinchat ( Saxicola rubetra ) and African Stonechat ( Saxicola torquata ).
In Britain, France and Ireland, it is particularly noted for supporting Dartford Warblers ( Sylvia undata ) and European Stonechats ( Saxicola rubicola ); the common name of the Whinchat ( Saxicola rubetra ) attests to its close association with Ulex.
Of particular note in this park are the: Hen harrier ( Circus cyaneus ), European Honey Buzzard ( Pernis apivorus ), Common Snipe ( Gallinago gallinago ), Red-backed Shrike ( Lanius collurio ), Yellowhammer ( Emberiza citrinella ), Garden Warbler ( Sylvia borin ) and Whinchat ( Saxicola rubetra ).
* Whinchat Saxicola rubetra
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* Thamesmead West is in Greenwich near Woolwich and Plumstead ( Between Whinchat Road, the A2016 & the banks of the river Thames ) and was built from the 1990s onwards.
The Whinchat is similar in size to its relative the European Robin ( Erithacus rubecula ), 12 – 14 cm long and 13 – 26 g weight.
It is more easily confused with female or immature Siberian Stonechat S. maura, which ( also being a long-distance migrant ) shares the longer wingtips ; however, Siberian Stonechat can be distinguished by its conspicuous unmarked pale orange-buff rump ( in Whinchat, the rump is the same mottled brown colour as the back ).
The Whinchat is a migratory species breeding in Europe and western Asia from Ireland and northern Portugal east to the Ob River basin near Novosibirsk, and from northern Norway south to central Spain, central Italy, northern Greece, and the Caucasus Mountains.
Fairly common across its wide range, the Whinchat is classified as a species of Least Concern by the IUCN.
The Canary Islands Stonechat is intermediate in appearance between the European Stonechat and the Whinchat ; its body size and shape reminiscent of a lithe European Robin.
Whinchat and small
The Whinchat favours rough low vegetation habitats such as open rough pasture or similar minimally cultivated grassland with scattered small shrubs such as Hawthorn ( Crataegus monogyna ), and Bracken ( Pteridium aquilinum ) or Heather ( Calluna vulgaris ) stands on rock-strewn ground.
Whinchat and migratory
Both sexes have distinctively short wings, shorter than those of the more migratory Whinchat and Siberian Stonechat.
Whinchat and bird
In Europe, the associated fauna consists of bird species such as Red Grouse, Hen Harrier, Merlin, Golden Plover, Curlew, Sky Lark, Meadow Pipit, Whinchat, Ring Ouzel, and Twite.
Whinchat and breeding
Other important breeding species include Buzzard, Barn Owl, Long-eared Owl, Nightingale, Stonechat, Whinchat, Wheatear, Corn Bunting and, on occasion, Montagu's Harrier.
Whinchat and Europe
Though fairly similar to females and immatures of the European Stonechat S. rubicola, the Whinchat can readily be distinguished by its conspicuous supercilium and whiter belly, and also in western Europe, by being paler overall than the western European Stonechat subspecies S. rubicola hibernans.
Whinchat and .
Very rarely, hybridisation between Whinchat and Siberian Stonechat occurs, with a case in reported Finland in 1997.
Its upperparts are generally coloured as the Whinchat, but more contrasting, dark brown with a blackish head and back streaks.
Species Seen: Whinchat, Redstart, Pied Flycatcher, Woodchat Shrike, Sardinian Warbler, Nightingale, Audouin's Gull, Blue Rock Thrush, Crag Martin, Black Vulture, Thekla Lark, Marmora's Warbler, Cory's Shearwater, Purple Swamphen, Great Reed Warbler, Moustached Warbler, Black-winged Stilts, Bee-eater, Cirl Bunting.
Amongst the birds that can be found here are Meadow Pipit, Skylark, Whinchat, Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail and Merlin.
Spring and autumn both produces good numbers of passage migrants, including waders in the spring and Common Redstart and Whinchat in the autumn.
The Whinchat has a prominent white supercilium.
Saxicola and rubetra
Saxicola derives from Latin saxum (" rock ") + incola (" dwelling "); rubetra is a Latin term for a small bird.
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For the Winchat ( Saxicola rubetra ), the area of Mourela is the unique nesting ground in Portugal, while the Red-backed Shrike and Yellowhammer is limited to Castro Lombeiro plateau and northern corners of the Park.
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As with other species of Saxicola, it was formerly considered a member of the thrush family ( Turdidae ), but is now placed in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.
The European Stonechat ( Saxicola rubicola ) is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a subspecies of the Common Stonechat.
It was included in the " Common Stonechat " ( Saxicola torquata ), but it is quite distinct ; it is likely to be an insular derivative of ancestral European Stonechats that colonised the islands some 1-2 mya, during the Early Pleistocene ( Wink et al.
The Pied Bush Chat ( Saxicola caprata ) is a small passerine bird found ranging from West and Central Asia to South and Southeast Asia.
The Pied Bush Chat is slightly smaller than the Siberian Stonechat, Saxicola maurus, although it has a similar dumpy structure and upright stance.
Common Stonechat is the name used for the Saxicola species Saxicola torquatus when this is treated in its broad sense.
Saxicola ( Latin: saxum, rock + incola, dwelling in ), the stonechats or chats, is a genus of 15 species of small passerine birds restricted to the Old World.
Saxicola and bird
The genus name indicates that it looks similar to Saxicola, the genus of the Pied Bushchat, a bird often found in similar habitats.
Saxicola and .
This species represents a fairly basal divergence of the genus Saxicola.
It retains the supercilium found in many Muscicapidae but lost in the more derived Saxicola species such as the European Stonechat or African Stonechat ( S. torquatus ).
* Saxicola rubicola rubicola.
* Saxicola rubicola hibernans.
The Canary Islands Stonechat ( Saxicola dacotiae ), also known as the Fuerteventura Stonechat or Fuerteventura Chat, and formerly known as the Canary Islands Chat due to its once widespread distribution on the Canary Islands.
* BirdLife International ( 2006 ): Species factsheet: Saxicola dacotiae.
Not all of the above are currently recognised as full species by all of the relevant taxonomical authorities, for example the British Ornithologists ' Union, currently include stejnegeri as a subspecies of Saxicola maurus.
Genetic and behavioural evidence has also resulted in several new species being accepted in the genus in recent years, most notably the splitting of the former broad " species " Common Stonechat Saxicola torquatus into five species, a change now widely though not yet universally accepted.
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