Phoenicurus phoenicurus
Silhouette: Martin Bulla, based on François Desbordes' illustration · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~40% in a week ~60%
The common redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus), or often simply redstart, is a small passerine bird in the 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).
The first formal description of the common redstart was by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Motacilla phoenicurus. The genus Phoenicurus was introduced by the English naturalist Thomas Forster in 1817. The genus and species name phoenicurus is from Ancient Greek phoinix, "red", and -ouros -"tailed".
Two subspecies are accepted. The nominate P. p. phoenicurus is found all over Europe and reaches into Siberia. To the southeast, subspecies P. p. samamisicus, sometimes called 'Ehrenberg's redstart', is found from the Crimean Peninsula and Greece through Turkey, the Caucasus, the Middle East, and into Central Asia. Adult males have white outer webs in the remiges, forming a pale to whitish wing-patch similar to the one seen in black redstart and Daurian redstart. This patch is also present but less... Wikipedia →
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jerusalem | 🇮🇱 Israel | |
| 2 | Yekaterinburg | 🇷🇺 Russia | |
| 3 | Ramallah | 🇵🇸 Palestine | |
| 4 | Bucharest | 🇷🇴 Romania | |
| 5 | Berlin | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 6 | Rostov-on-Don | 🇷🇺 Russia | |
| 7 | Prague | 🇨🇿 Czechia | |
| 8 | Nizhny Novgorod | 🇷🇺 Russia | |
| 9 | Turin | 🇮🇹 Italy | |
| 10 | Abu Dhabi | 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parc des oiseaux | 🇫🇷 France |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Common Redstart sighting in Ecrins National Park on a given day, based on 15 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 50th most-seen of the 76 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 60%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Common Redstart in Ecrins National Park on a given day, against about 10% in January–April and July–October, the lowest months. November and December have too few records to rate.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Common Redstart sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
3rd of 28
Of the 28 parks where we can rate Common Redstart sightings, Ecrins National Park ranks 3rd at about 10%. The best odds are in Gauja National Park (Latvia, about 20%) and Białowieża National Park (Poland, about 20%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Common Redstart is recorded against all the birds logged in Ecrins National Park (15 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
