- 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...
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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....
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Chats Whinchat (Saxicola rubetra)
Scientific classification Domain:
Eukaryota Kingdom:
Animalia Phylum:
Chordata class: Aves Order: P****eriformes Family:...
- undata) and
European stonechats (Saxicola rubicola); the
common name of the
whinchat (Saxicola rubetra)
attests to its
close ****ociation with gorse. The flowers...
-
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...
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intermediate between summer males and females, with a
supercilium resembling the
whinchat (S. rubetra); from this
species and the
female it can be distinguished...
- The
whinchat has a
prominent white supercilium....
- 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...
- have
distinctively short wings,
shorter than
those of the more
migratory whinchat and
Siberian stonechat. The
summer male has
black upperparts, a
black head...
