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"The ground nesting birds, like the skylarks and the meadow pipits, the wrens and stonechats, they'll have lost their nests and eggs."

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2025

Cutting our losses with the stonechats, we head back to his car and on to the road over the moors to Teesdale.

From BBC • Aug. 4, 2024

Land-sparing urban areas are breeding grounds for birds that lay many eggs, use open nests more frequently, and have short life cycles, such as stonechats, chiffchaffs and crested larks.

From Science Daily • Dec. 12, 2023

Ornithologist Barbara Hall from the University of Groningen and her colleagues, for example, studied European stonechats, small songbirds that they caught and then bred in captivity.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 13, 2020

There were stonechats and whinchats then as now.

From The Vanity Girl by MacKenzie, Compton