BLUETHROAT Luscinia svecica Clonea Strand, Ballinclamper, Co. Waterford, Ireland

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BLACK REDSTART Phoenicurus ochruros Clonea Strand, Ballinclamper, Co. Waterford, Ireland

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The Black Redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros) is a small perching bird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae which is the genus Phoenicurus. It is a locally common resident in central and southern Europe and northern Africa. It also occurs in western and central Asia. In the warmer parts of its range it is sedentary. The northern populations migrate in the autumn to spend the winter in southern and western Europe, northern Africa and the Indian sub continent. 

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