White-browed bush chat

White-browed bush chat
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.

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Notes

  1. Saxicola is masculine leading to the species epithet ending in -us

References

  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Saxicola macrorhynchus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. Rao, Rahul (2007). "Sighting of Stoliczka's Bushchat Saxicola macrorhynchus in Pune District, Maharashtra, Western India.". J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 104 (2): 214.

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