Common Redstart

Scientific name: Phoenicurus phoenicurus
Mongolian name: Эгэл гал сүүлт
Order: Passeriformes
Bird family: Muscicapidae (Old World flycatchers)
Conservation status: LC

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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.

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