American Redstart

Call and song

• Recording 1 · song

  Recording: Jonathon Jongsma · Wikimedia · CC-BY-SA 4.0 (licence)

• Recording 2

  Recording: Wil Hershberger; Cornell Lab of Ornithology | Macaulay Library

• Recording 3

  Recording: Luciana Andrade; Cornell Lab of Ornithology | Macaulay Library

About the American Redstart

Adult males are striking and distinctive: mostly glossy black with bright orange flashes on the wings, tail, and sides. Females and young males are duller gray and olive with yellow patches instead of orange. Habitually flicks and fans tail while foraging for insects. Breeds in mature deciduous forests, often near water. Migrants can be found in any wooded habitat. Fairly extensive winter range throughout most of Middle America, the Caribbean, and northern South America. Song is extremely variable.

Species account: eBird.org, fetched 2025-12-26 · How these pages are made

Where it has been recorded

Recorded in 56 of the 253 countries we have eBird lists for. Each opens that country's checklist.

• Anguilla
• Antigua and Barbuda
• Aruba
• Bahamas
• Barbados
• Belize
• Bermuda
• Brazil
• Canada
• Caribbean Netherlands
• Cayman Islands
• Chile
• Clipperton Island
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Curaçao
• Dominica
• Dominican Republic
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
• French Guiana
• Guadeloupe
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Haiti
• High Seas
• Honduras
• Iceland
• Ireland
• Jamaica
• Martinique
• Mexico
• Montserrat
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Portugal
• Puerto Rico
• Saint Barthélemy
• Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Saint Martin (French part)
• Saint Pierre and Miquelon
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• Sint Maarten
• Suriname
• Trinidad and Tobago
• Turks and Caicos Islands
• United Kingdom
• United States
• United States Minor Outlying Islands
• Uruguay
• Venezuela
• Virgin Islands (British)
• Virgin Islands (U.S.)