Whinchat
Taken at Culter Water on 14th May 2018 using Nikon D5200 with Sigma 600 mm zoom lens.
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Female
Juvenile
Taken at St Andrews on 25th July 2019 using Nikon D500 with Sigma 600 mm zoom lens.
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Taken at Dunbar on 13th September 216 using Nikon D5200 with Sigma 150-500 mm zoom lens.
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Whinchat.
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Local Names: 		Saxicola rubetra.
Passeriformes.
Muscicapidae.
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Mainly insects but wil eat spiders snails and worms and berries in the winter.
Birds arrive on the breeding grounds between the end of April and mid May, and depart between mid August and mid September.
Both sexes have brownish upperparts mottled darker, a buff throat and breast, a pale buff to whitish belly, and a blackish tail with white bases
to the outer tail feathers.
It's scientific name means "small rock-dweller". Saxicola derives from Latin saxum ("rock") + incola ("dwelling"); rubetra is a Latin term for a small bird.
12 - 14 cms.
4 - 7.

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