Stonechat 

Taken at St Andrews on 24th June 2023 using Nikon D500 with Sigma 600 mm zoom lens.
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Taken at RSPB Hobbister on 17th July 2018 using Nikon D5200 with Sigma 600 mm zoom lens. Fact File
Taken at Doonfoot on 30th April 2017 using Nikon D5200 with Sigma 600 mm zoom lens. Fact File
Taken at Skinflats on 29 October 2017 using Nikon D5200 with Sigma 600 mm zoom lens. Fact File
Taken at Doonfoot on 3rd December 2017 using Nikon D5200 with Sigma 600 mm zoom lens. Fact File
Female
Taken at Doonfoot on 11th December 2022 using Nikon D500 with Sigma 600 mm zoom lens.
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Taken at Skinflats on 29 October 2017 using Nikon D5200 with Sigma 600 mm zoom lens. Fact File
Juvenile
Taken at Musselburgh on 7th August 2022 using Nikon D500 with Sigma 600 mm zoom lens.
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Stonechat.
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Local Names:
Saxicola rubicola.
Passeriformes.
Muscicapidae.


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Dense shrubs, such as gorse.
Cup-shaped nest from grass and moss lined with hair, wool, and feathers.
Mainly an insectivore, but will eat berries and seeds in the winter.
The summer male has black upperparts, a black head, an orange throat and breast, and a white belly and vent.The female has paler brown upperparts and head, and no white neck patches, rump or belly, these areas being streaked dark brown on paler brown.
May-July. 2 Broods.
5 - 6
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