Rufous-tailed Rock-Thrush (Monticola saxatilis)

Other Names (World)
Rufous-tailed Rock-Thrush, Common Rock-thrush, European Rock-thrush, Mountain Rock-thrush, Spotted Rock-thrush, Common Rock Thrush

Family
Muscicapidae (Old World Flycatchers And Chats)

Size
19 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1766)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry grassland, dry savanna, temperate grassland and shrubland. From 1,250 - 4,000 m.

Range (Guide)

Afghanistan (B), Albania (B), Algeria, Andorra (B), Armenia (B), Austria (B), Azerbaijan (B), Bahrain (P), Bosnia and Herzegovina (B), Bulgaria (B), Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, China (mainland) (B), Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska) (B), Cyprus, Czech Republic (B), Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, France (B), Gambia, Georgia (B), Germany (E) (B), Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece (B) (P), Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Hungary (B), Iran [Islamic Republic of] (B), Iraq (P), Israel (B), Italy (B), Jordan (P), Kazakhstan (B), Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan (B), Lebanon (B), Liberia, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Macedonia [The Former Yugoslav Republic of] (B), Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Moldova [Republic of] (B), Mongolia (B), Montenegro (B), Morocco, Nigeria, Oman, Poland (B), Portugal (B), Qatar, Romania (B), Russia (Asian) (B), Russia (Central Asian) (B), Russia (European) (B), Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia (B), Sierra Leone, Slovakia (Slovak Republic) (B), Slovenia (B), Somalia, Spain (B), Sudan, Switzerland (B), Syrian Arab Republic (B), Tajikistan (B), Tanzania [United Republic of], Tunisia, Turkey (B), Turkmenistan (B), Uganda, Ukraine (B), United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan (B), Western Sahara, Yemen.

Vagrant to Belgium, C�te dIvoire, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Japan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Myanmar, Netherlands Antilles, Niger, Norway, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sweden, Togo, United Kingdom, Zambia.

Mountains from southern and central Europe and north-western Africa east to south-western and central Asia (east to L Baikal, Inner Mongolia and central China). Non-breeding sub-Saharan Africa.

Population
Estimated population is 500,000 - 4,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (126)...)

Common Rock Thrush (Monticola saxatilis) [XC145211]
by No\u00e9mie D from Rachmanovskiy lake, Altai, Kazakhstan (song)

Common Rock Thrush (Monticola saxatilis) [XC733770]
by Stanislas Wroza from Arrondissement de Carpentras (near B\u00e9doin), Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-C\u00f4te d'Azur, France (song)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Rufous-tailed Rock-Thrush (Monticola saxatilis) - 10 files

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