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n. A small brownish Old World songbird (Saxicola rubetra) often found in open country.

n. A small Old World songbird, Saxicola rubetra, that feeds on insects.

n. A small warbler (Pratincola rubetra) common in Europe; -- called also whinchacker, whincheck, whin-clocharet.

n. An oscine passerine bird of the genus Pratincola, P. rubetra, closely related to the stonechat, and less nearly to the wheatear. Compare cuts under stonechat and wheatear.

n. brown-and-buff European songbird of grassy meadows

"A teenage twitcher and a small buff-coloured songbird called the whinchat were the keys that turned the Iron Curtain's landscape of barbed wire, mined death strips and Kalashnikov-toting border guards into what is probably the most enduring green success story in Europe since the Cold War."

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whinchacker    whincheck    whin-clocharet