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Redstart
Phoenicurus phoenicurus
41.8249, 44.6991
Field Notes
Description:
Redstart or Common redstart is an Old World flycatcher (fam Muscicapidae), roughly the size of sparrow; but slimmer and a bit more elegant in profile. Portrayed here is male, flamboyant in his breeding colours: orange-red breast, pale orange belly, black face and throat, white forehead, ash-grey crown and back. Caught in the middle of his song.
Habitat:
Common flycatcher in Europe woodlands, here observed in central Georgia, on a wooded slopes of a hill above Mtskheta; a township on periphery of Tbilisi.
Reference Links:
Common redstart - Wikipedia
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PublishedApril 29, 2019
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