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Common Redstart

🇳🇱 Gekraagde Roodstaart ·Phoenicurus phoenicurus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands
Common Redstart, photo 1 of 8
1/8 © Pablo Pozo · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The common redstart ( Phoenicurus phoenicurus ), or often simply redstart , is a small passerine bird in the redstart genus Phoenicurus . Like its relatives, it was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family, (Turdidae), but is now known to be an Old World flycatcher (family Muscicapidae).

base stats

  • NL sightings 299iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 40,576iNaturalist observations
  • threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

  • Spotted 299 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
  • 40,576 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Common Redstart
Nederlands
Gekraagde Roodstaart
scientific name
Phoenicurus phoenicurus
class
Aves
order
Passeriformes
family
Muscicapidae
IUCN Red List
LC · least concern
sightings in NL
299
sightings in Europe
27,166
sightings worldwide
40,576
GBIF records in NL
159,644
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1758

IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.

relatives· Muscicapidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 12992, Wikidata Q26620, GBIF 5739317, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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