Whinchat: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the whinchat lives – recorded in 59 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Saxicola rubetra
Group	Songbirds & perching birds
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	59 countries
Continents	Africa, Asia, Europe
Mass	2.06 g (birth weight)
Class	Bird
Order	Passeriformes
Family	Muscicapidae

Where does the whinchat live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the whinchat in 59 countries and territories across Africa, Asia and Europe. Wikidata gives its range as: Gabon, The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Uganda.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

How big is a whinchat?

Wikidata records the following for the whinchat: mass 2.06 g (birth weight).

Is the whinchat endangered?

The whinchat’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the whinchat?

The whinchat (Saxicola rubetra) is a bird in the order Passeriformes and the family Muscicapidae, genus Saxicola. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the whinchat

The whinchat (Saxicola rubetra) is a small migratory passerine bird breeding in Europe and western Asia and wintering in central Africa. At one time considered to be in the thrush family, Turdidae, it is now placed in the Old World flycatcher family, Muscicapidae. Both sexes have a strong supercilium, brownish upper parts mottled darker, a pale throat and breast, a pale buff to whitish belly, and a blackish tail with white bases to the outer tail feathers, but in the breeding season, the male has an orange-buff throat and breast.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Whinchat (revision 1375721097), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q155869 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).