mong the brightest of the spring migrants is the redstart (). The male is more glorious, with a vivid head and orange breast in addition to the orange (red) tail and rump – also the startling feature of the paler female, which gives the bird its name. ‘Start' is from Anglo-Saxon is from the Greek (firetail) bestowed by Aristotle, father of natural science, from phoenix, firebird of Egyptian mythology.
