Habitat
Rocky hillsides and ravines with shrubby vegetation cover, edges of vegetated lava flows, dry and flowing watercourses, cultivated areas, rural gardens. From sea-level - 800 m.
Population
Estimated population is 1,000 - 2,499 (2010) and decreasing.
Status NT
Habitat degradation, over-grazing, nest predation by feral cats and other introduced mammals appear to be the main threats.
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.
Canary Islands Stonechat (Saxicola dacotiae) [XC30197]
by Yoann Blanchon from Barranco de Rio Cabras, Fuerteventura, Spain (alarm call, alarm calls of a male)
Canary Islands Stonechat (Saxicola) [XC334286]
by Herman van Oosten from Maxorata (near La Oliva), Las Palmas, Canarias, Spain (alarm call)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Has been treated as a subspecies of Common Stonechat (Saxicola torquatus).
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
dacotiae (Meade-Waldo, 1889) - Canary Islands.
murielae! Bannerman, 1913 - Formerly Canary Is. (Montaņa Clara and Allegranza). Extinct.