black redstart

Laban, a centre for contemporary dance in London, has a brown roof specifically designed to encourage the nationally rare black redstart.

Similar birds Black Redstart, Nightingale.

Phoenicurus ochruros (black redstart)

Black Redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros)

Many species of finches, robins, redstarts (like the Black Redstart), and the Hoopoe are common in summer.

Among common European birds, only the Black Redstart (Phoenicurus ochrurus) has a similarly coloured tail.

The Black Redstart is 13-14.5 cm in length and 12-20 g in weight, similar to the Common Redstart.

Rarer birds include osprey, Red Kite, Black Redstart, and Great Grey Shrike have been seen.

Its ancestors were apparently the first redstarts to spread to Europe; they seem to have diverged from the Black Redstart group about 3 mya, during the Piacenzian.

The Black Redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros) is a small passerine bird in the redstart genus Phoenicurus.

Some few, such as "The Black Redstart" and "The Common Cuckoo", are signed "THOMPSON DEL ET SC."

It is slightly smaller than P. p. phoenicurus and in adult males has white outer webs in the remiges to some extent, forming a pale to whitish wing-patch similar to the one seen in Black Redstart and Daurian Redstart.

In July he was watching the Black Redstart and for most of the winter, Conder watched the feeding and roosting habits of the local flock of rooks and jackdaws and observed the migration of a variety of species including crows moving northeast to Russia.