Claim: The whinchat (Saxicola rubetra) is a small migratory passerine duck breeding in Europe now considered an Old World flycatcher family, Muscicapidae, that belongs to the class Aves and Phylum Chordata.
Evidence: The whinchat (Saxicola rubetra) is a small migratory passerine bird breeding in Europe and western Asia and wintering in central Africa. Sometimes known as perching birds or songbirds, passerines are distinguished from other orders of birds by the arrangement of their toes (three pointing forward and one back), which facilitates perching.