Moussier's Redstart

When to see the Moussier's Redstart

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Moussier's Redstart

The map shades 6 countries with regular records, and 2 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in France, Libya.

About the Moussier's Redstart

Moussier's redstart is a small passerine bird in the genus Phoenicurus (redstarts), formerly classed as a member of the thrush family (Turdidae), but is now classified as an Old World flycatcher (Muscicapidae). It is an endemic resident breeder in the Atlas Mountains of northwest Africa. Its habitat is open woodland in rocky areas from sea level up to 3000 m altitude in the mountains.

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Easily confused with

Blue-capped RedstartPhoenicurus coeruleocephalaThe blue-capped redstart is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. Güldenstädt's RedstartPhoenicurus erythrogastrusGüldenstädt's redstart, also known as the white-winged redstart, is a species of bird in the genus Phoenicurus, family Muscicapidae. Hodgson's RedstartPhoenicurus hodgsoniHodgson's redstart is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae.