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Whinchat
Whinchat Whin"chat`, n. [So called because it frequents whins.] (Zo["o]l.) A small warbler (Pratincola rubetra) common in Europe; -- called also whinchacker, whincheck, whin-clocharet.
whinchat
Chat Chat, n. 1. Light, familiar talk; conversation; gossip. Snuff, or fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. --Pope. 2. (Zo["o]l.) A bird of the genus Icteria, allied to the warblers, in America. The best known species are the yellow-breasted chat (I. viridis), and the long-tailed chat (I. longicauda). In Europe the name is given to several birds of the family Saxicolid[ae], as the stonechat, and whinchat. Bush chat. (Zo["o]l.) See under Bush.

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- The whinchat (Saxicola rubetra) is a small migratory p****erine bird breeding in Europe and western Asia and wintering in central Africa. At one time considered...
- Eurasian eagle-owl, the great grey shrike, the red-backed shrike and the whinchat. There have been reports of free-roaming wolves, which had been wiped out...
- disproportionate sensitivities to anthropogenic pressures. Females of the whinchat in Switzerland breed in intensely managed gr****lands. Earlier harvesting...
- grouse, hen harrier, merlin, golden plover, curlew, skylark, meadow pipit, whinchat, ring ouzel, and twite. Other species dominate in moorlands elsewhere....
- undata) and European stonechats (Saxicola rubicola); the common name of the whinchat (Saxicola rubetra) attests to its close ****ociation with gorse. The flowers...
- spotted flycatcher, tree pipit, red-throated diver, common sandpiper, whinchat, and the occasional merlin. The Loch has been voted on the UK's best picnic...
- Chats Whinchat (Saxicola rubetra) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata class: Aves Order: P****eriformes Family:...
- The whinchat has a prominent white supercilium....
- ground dove Wetar myzomela Wetar oriole Wetar scops owl Weyns's weaver Whinchat Whiskered auklet Whiskered flower**** Whiskered myiobius Whiskered pitta...
- and goldfinch. European stonechat is a familiar bird, too, and the rarer whinchat and redstart are seen regularly on p****age to and from their breeding grounds...