Overview

Family - Chats and thrushes (Turdidae).

The black redstart is a small robin-sized bird that has adapted to live at the heart of industrial and urban centres. Its name comes from the plumage of the male, which is grey-black in colour with a red tail. With fewer than 100 breeding pairs in the UK, the black redstart is on the amber list of Birds of Conservation Concern.

Comment

The redstart that is standing on a rail was taken on a bridge on the Taw Estuary in 2009.  The remaining pictures were taken of two birds on the South facing grassy slope of Brean Down behind the Tropical Bird Gardens on 2/1/2010.