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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 cm
4 to 7
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