Key information
The common redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus), or often simply redstart, is a small passerine bird in the redstart genus Phoenicurus.
Length : 13–14·5 cm
Weight : 11–23 g
Population : 32,000,000-49,999,999 individuals
Habitat: they prefer open mature birch and oak woodland with a high horizontal visibility and low amounts of shrub and understorey especially where the trees are old enough to have holes suitable for its nest.
Diet: It often feeds like a flycatcher, making aerial sallies after passing insects, and most of its food consists of winged insects.
Location
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