Common stonechat

Description

The males have a black head,a white half-collar,a black back,a white rump,and a black tail;the wings are black with a large white patch on the top side of the inner wing.The upper breast is usually dark orange-red,with a sharp or gradual transition to white or pale orange on the lower breast and belly depending on subspecies.In a few,black replaces the orange breast feathers in part or entirely.Females have brown rather than black above and on the head with an indistinct paler eyebrow line,chestnut-buff rather than orange below,and less white on the wings.Both sexes' plumage is somewhat duller and streakier outside the breeding season.