Redwing

A small winter thrush arriving with autumn migration and cold weather.

A recording has not been added yet. Use the identification notes below for now.

FIELDCRAFT · FIND WITH CARE

Finding guide

Season first

Choose the season, find the habitat, then watch patiently. Search guidance is not a measure of rarity or conservation status.

When to go: Mainly autumn to spring, including passage
Where to start: Scan fields and hedges from public rural roads and paths.
What to do when you arrive: In autumn and winter, scan berry hedges and damp grassland from paths. Look for the pale eyebrow and rusty flanks; mobile winter flocks need not remain at one site.

Habitat and behaviour reference: BirdWatch Ireland ↗ · The practical steps are editorial advice based on the references, not live sightings.

SPECIES NOTESSpecies notes

Bold pale eyebrow and moustachial stripe, streaked breast and rusty flanks and underwings. The red may be hidden by the folded wing.

Farmland, grassland, hedges and rural woodland edges.

Flocks feed on worms in fields and berries in hedges.

Mainly autumn to spring, including passage

Scan fields and hedges from public rural roads and paths.

Reference photos do not show every sex, age, season or geographic form; use the identification notes too.

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