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.    From Wordnik.com.  [EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed] Reference

Some greenfinches, a whinchat or two, almost no pipits or larks, and very few sparrows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naturalist on the Thames] Reference

They also reminded me of certain notes, which have a human quality, in some of our songsters -- the swallow, redstart, pied wagtail, whinchat, and two or three others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afoot in England] Reference

The Rev.W. H. H.rbert made similar observations, and states that the young whinchat and wheatear, which have naturally little variety of song, are ready in confinement to learn from other species, and become much better songsters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays] Reference

How the wheatear and whinchat support themselves in winter cannot be so easily ascertained, since they spend their time on wild heaths and warrens; the former especially, where there are stone quarries: most probably it is that their maintenance arises from the aureliae of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1] Reference