Phoenicurus ochruros
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Body dark but rump and tail rusty orange, flashing brightly the moment the bird flies
Bobs and shivers its tail almost continuously after landing
Male's head and breast sooty black with a dark forehead, unlike common redstart's white forehead and orange breast
Female and juvenile uniformly dull grey-brown with cold grey underparts, not the warm buff of female common redstart
Perches on roofs, chimneys, aerials, scaffolding and rock walls rather than tree branches
Short song phrase with a scratchy, gravel-crunching passage in the middle, usually from a roof or aerial
