CLOSED: Could you help me identify this bird?

Mauleon-Licharre, France

I would be grateful if anyone could help identify this bird that flew (one of a group) into my garden in SW France this morning. The head is olive-green, the bib is yellow with an orange trim at the bottom. The back is grey going down to the black forked tail with a bar across it at the junction between the body and tail. The grey/black wings have a yellow trim. There is also a red/orange flash on the wings. I cannot find it anywhere in my European bird book so it might have been pushed off-course from somewhere else. It is about 5-6 inches in length. Thanks for any help.

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Mauleon-Licharre, France

Mystery solved. It is a Red-Billed Leiothrix or Pekin Robin. It really shouldn't be in the south of France so an escapee which has formed a small colony so there must have been a pair at one time.

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