Claim: The whinchat (Saxicola rubetra) is a small migratory passerine birds breeding in Europe now considered an Old World flycatcher family, Muscicapidae.
Evidence: The whinchat (Saxicola rubetra) is a small migratory passerine bird breeding in Europe and western Asia and wintering in central Africa. At one time considered to be in the thrush family, Turdidae, it is now placed in the Old World flycatcher family, Muscicapidae.