White-browed bush chat
Male in non-breeding plumage at Tal Chhapar Sanctuary, Rajasthan, India
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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.[2] It has apparently strayed as far east as the Bharatpur area of Rajasthan and as far south as Goa and Pune,[3] with two simultaneous historical records from southern Afghanistan.[2]

Notes

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

References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2017). "Saxicola macrorhynchus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T22710160A110578039. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-1.RLTS.T22710160A110578039.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. 1 2 Mandhro, Sameer (16 May 2020). "Rare bird sighted after 98 long years". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  3. ↑ 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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