Black Redstart - Phoenicurus ochruros
The Black Redstart is a small robin-sized bird. Its name comes from the plumage of the male, which is grey-black in colour with a red tail.
May be seen in a variety of habitats.
Breeding birds and spring passage migrants arrive between March and May. Autumn passage lasts from September to November, peaking in October. Wintering birds are present between late autumn and early spring.
The few British breeding birds occur mainly in urban areas.
With fewer than 100 breeding pairs in the UK, the Black Redstart is on the amber list of Birds of Conservation Concern.
Only seen as a bird of passage in Leicestershire & Rutland.
Mark Skevington
Exton
03 January 2010
male
John Cranfield
Fleckney garden1
02 November 2011
male
Elizabethgriffin
Garden Normanton
13 April 2016
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Species profile
- Common names
- Black Redstart
- Species group:
- Birds
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Passeriformes
- Family:
- Muscicapidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 12
- First record:
- 16/04/2008 (M. Stetton)
- Last record:
- 19/04/2021 (Moffat, Stuart)
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