Siberian Stonechat

Look for this small, upright chat perched prominently on low bushes, fence posts or grass stems in open scrub, heath and farmland, from where it makes short sallies to catch insects on the ground. Breeding males show a dark head and orange-buff underparts, making them easy to pick out during the breeding season across their central Asian and Siberian range. Outside the breeding season it winters in open country across South and Southeast Asia and parts of Africa, where it can turn up as a passage migrant well outside its normal range.