White-browed bush chat
White-browed bush chat | |
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Male in non-breeding plumage at Tal Chhapar Sanctuary, Rajasthan, India | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Muscicapidae |
Genus: | Saxicola |
Species: | S. macrorhynchus |
Binomial name | |
Saxicola macrorhynchus Stoliczka, 1872 | |
Synonyms | |
Saxicola macrorhyncha |
The white-browed bush chat (Saxicola macrorhynchus),[note 1] also known as Stoliczka's bushchat, is an Old World flycatcher in the genus Saxicola. The alternative name is after the discoverer, geologist and explorer Ferdinand Stoliczka.
This desert specialist has a small, declining population because of agricultural intensification and encroachment, which qualifies it as vulnerable.
The white-browed bush chat is found in an area of semi-arid country in north-western India and eastern Pakistan. It has apparently strayed as far east as the Bharatpur area of Rajasthan and as far south as Goa and Pune,[2] with two simultaneous historical records from southern Afghanistan.
Gallery
- Stolizka
Notes
- ↑ Saxicola is masculine leading to the species epithet ending in -us
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Saxicola macrorhynchus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ↑ Rao, Rahul (2007). "Sighting of Stoliczka's Bushchat Saxicola macrorhynchus in Pune District, Maharashtra, Western India.". J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 104 (2): 214.
Other sources
- BirdLife Species Factsheet.
- Red-Data Book Species Information
- Endangered and Threatened Birds of the World, a photo discussion by Don Roberson
- Urquhart, E. & Bowley, A. 2002. Stonechats. A Guide to the Genus Saxicola. Helm. ISBN 0-7136-6024-4
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