Redstart
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{{Taxobox
| name = Redstarts
| image = Gekraagderoodstaart2.jpg
| image_width = 240px
| image_caption = [[Common Redstart]], ''Phoenicurus phoenicurus''
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]]
| classis = [[Bird|Aves]]
| ordo = [[Passerine|Passeriformes]]
| familia = [[Muscicapidae]]
| subdivision_ranks = [[Genus|Genera]] and [[species]]
| subdivision =
See text.
}}
'''Redstarts''' are a group of small [[Old World]] birds. They were formerly classified in the [[thrush (bird)| thrush]] family ([[Turdidae]]), but are more often now treated as part of the [[Old World flycatcher]] family ([[Muscicapidae]]). There are two main groups: the true redstarts of the [[genus]] ''[[Phoenicurus]]'' and the more aberrant and not too closely related [[White-capped Redstart|White-capped]], [[Plumbeous Redstart|Plumbeous]], [[Luzon Redstart|Luzon]], and [[White-bellied Redstart]]s.
These are insectivorous ground feeding [[bird]]s, many of which have the red tail ("start" is the [[English language|modern English]] reflex of [[Middle English]] ''stert'', [[Old English language|Old English]] ''steort'', tail of an animal), which gives the group its name. Most northern species are strong [[bird migration|migrants]].
New World redstarts of the genera ''[[Setophaga]]'' and ''[[Myioborus]]'' are not closely related; they are [[New World warbler]]s of the family [[Parulidae]]. Members of the latter genus are sometimes called "whitestarts".
'''FAMILY MUSCICAPIDAE'''
*Genus ''[[Phoenicurus]]''<!-- ActaZoolSin52Supplement:310 -->
**[[Rufous-backed Redstart]], ''Phoenicurus erythronota''
**[[Blue-capped Redstart]], ''Phoenicurus caeruleocephalus''
**[[Blue-fronted Redstart]], ''Phoenicurus frontalis''
**[[Ala Shan Redstart]], ''Phoenicurus alaschanicus''
**[[Common Redstart]], ''Phoenicurus phoenicurus''
**[[White-throated Redstart]], ''Phoenicurus schisticeps''
**[[Hodgson's Redstart]], ''Phoenicurus hodgsoni''
**[[Daurian Redstart]], ''Phoenicurus auroreus''
**[[White-winged Redstart]], ''Phoenicurus erythrogaster''
**[[Moussier's Redstart]], ''Phoenicurus moussieri''
**[[Black Redstart]], ''Phoenicurus ochruros''
*Genus ''[[Chaimarrornis]]''
**[[White-capped Redstart]], ''Chaimarrornis leucocephalus''
*Genus ''[[Rhyacornis]]''
**[[Plumbeous Redstart]], ''Rhyacornis fuliginosus''
**[[Luzon Redstart]], ''Rhyacornis bicolor''
*Genus ''[[Hodgsonius]]''
**[[White-bellied Redstart]], ''Hodgsonius phaenicuroides''
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[[fr:Phoenicurus]]
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