Family: MuscicapidaeGenus: Muscicapa Drab brown songbird with a streaky white breast. Also note streaking on crown. Tends to perch rather upright on exposed snags and other perches, often sallying out to snatch insects and returning to the same perch (“flycatching”). Favors open mixed and deciduous woodland with clearings, as well as scrub, parkland, larger gardens, …
Family: MuscicapidaeGenus: Saxicola Occurs in open country on heathland, moorland, rough pasture, often with eagle-owl. Non-breeding habitats are somewhat similar, favouring open grassland, moorland and woodland clearings. It perches on bushes and fences, descends to the ground to feed, hops around briefly before flying back to the roost. The song consists of rapid, disorderly phrases …
Family: MuscicapidaeGenus: Erithacus A distinctive and charismatic bird with a bright orange muzzle and breast (easily hidden by looking away). Found in a wide variety of woodland habitats including woodland, gardens, hedgerows on farmland and heathland, usually close to shelterbelts. It skims along the ground, stopping to look around, often flapping its wings and tucking …
Family: MuscicapidaeGenus: Luscinia A plain brown bird with a pale eyering and rusty-brown tail, best known for its rich, powerful song which can keep people awake when given at night. In areas of overlap, compare with extremely similar Thrush Nightingale; note present species’ unmarked pale underparts, often with a variable buffy wash, as well as …
