This gorgeous and common bird is a year-round resident in most of Europe and then migratory in the more eastern and southern parts of its range in north Africa and Asia. It has been sorely misunderstood and previously grouped in with Turdus thrushes not to mention its name which implies a warbler. In fact it is an old world flycatcher and behaves more like a phoebe than a thrush or warbler. I have seen them a few times in Europe but it was not until my latest trip to the south of France where I properly crushed this one at a train station.
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