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Species › Birds

Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin

Cercotrichas galactotes

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Muscicapidae
Presence in the Strait
Seasonal
Abundance
scarce
Protection in Spain
Vulnerable · Andalusian Catalogue
In Spanish
Alzacola rojizo

36% of its open observations in the area are from May.

Photograph: El Golli Mohamed, CC BY-SA, vía iNaturalist

Length
15–17 cm
Weight
23 g
01020LENGTH15–17 cmcentimetres

Presence in the Strait

Scarce summer visitor to wild olive groves. Numbers are falling (15-20 pairs).

Identification

Similar to a Nightingale but with black and white spots at the end of its reddish tail that are more visible in flight, white supercilium and dark eye-stripe. Often spreads tail and jerks it upwards.

Movements

Peaks in 1st hf. May and 1st hf. September. Prunellidae Acentor Común Acentor Alpino Grey breast and head, mantle densely marked with dark streaks. Black and white speckled throat and chestnut-streaked flanks. Yellow base of bill and white tips to tail. In flight, it shows black wing bars with white edges. Confident and gregarious. Movements: The first birds arrive towards the beginning of November and can be seen until March. Turdidae Alzacola Rojizo

Bioestrecho editorial text. Last revised: 8 September 2026.

Gallery

Photographs from iNaturalist observations with the licence checked file by file. Those marked “Strait” were taken within the area; place and date are those of each observation.