// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhy did the Redstart go to the doctor? It had a fowl start.
Redstart is a name used for a number of songbirds that are not closely related to each other:
Old world flycatcher family (Muscicapidae)
- Phoenicurus, 14 species found in Africa, Asia and Europe
- Common redstart, a European species often known simply as "redstart"
- White-bellied redstart, an Asian species not closely related to the Phoenicurus redstarts
New world warbler family (Parulidae)
- Myioborus, 12 species found in North and South America, also known as "whitestarts"
- American redstart, a species found in North and South America, not closely related to the genus Myioborus