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 LC    Rufous-tailed Scrub-Robin* Id (Atlas):
    Cercotrichas galactotes Vagrant

Description (10)
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Other Scientific Names
Cercotrichas galactotes [Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)], Cercotrichas galactotes [Cramp and Simmons (1977-1994)], Cercotrichas galactotes [AERC TAC (2003)]

Other Names (World)
Rufous-tailed Scrub-Robin, Rufous-tailed Bush-robin, Rufous-tailed Bush-chat, Rufous-tailed Scrub-warbler, Rufous Bush-robin, Rufous Scrub-robin, Rufous Bush-chat, Rufous Scrub-warbler, Greyish Scrub-robin, Grayish Scrub-robin, Grey-backed Warbler (familiaris), Gray-backed Warbler (familiaris), African Scrub-robin (minor and hamertoni), Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin

Family
Muscicapidae (Old World Flycatchers And Chats)

Size
15 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Temminck, 1820)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry grassland, forest,shrubland, savanna. From sea-level - 1,000 m.

Range (Guide)
Afghanistan (B), Albania (B), Algeria, Armenia (B), Azerbaijan (B), Bahrain (B) (P), Bosnia and Herzegovina (B), Bulgaria (B), Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Cyprus, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Georgia (B), Gibraltar, Greece (B), India, Iran [Islamic Republic of] (B), Iraq (B), Israel (B), Italy, Jordan (B) (P), Kazakhstan (B), Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon (B), Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Macedonia [The Former Yugoslav Republic of] (B), Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Montenegro (B), Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Oman (B), Pakistan (B), Portugal (B), Qatar, Saudi Arabia (B), Senegal, Serbia (B), Somalia, Spain (B), Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic (B), Tajikistan (B), Tunisia, Turkey (B), Turkmenistan (B), United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan (B), Western Sahara (B), Yemen.

Vagrant to China (mainland), Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], France, Gambia, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Malawi, Norway, Romania, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom.

Population
Estimated population is 200,000 - 1,200,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (222)...)

 
Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin (Cercotrichas galactotes) [XC831578]
     by Esperanza Poveda from C\u00f3rdoba (near Santa Cruz), C\u00f3rdoba, Andaluc\u00eda, Spain (song)

 
Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin (Cercotrichas) [XC527534]
     by JC Paniagua from Lulu Island, Abu Dhabi, Morocco (song)

Subspecies
Genus often merged into Cercotrichas. Paler and greyer birds from Transcaspia described as subspecies deserticola; subsumed in familiaris, but possibly merits recognition.

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

  • galactotes (Temminck, 1820)   -  Southern and eastern Iberia (possibly also southern France), northern Africa (south to southern Algeria), Israel and south-western Syria. Non-breeding Sahel zone of western Africa.
  • syriaca (Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1833)   -  Balkans east to western and southern Turkey, western Syria and Lebanon. Non-breeding north-eastern and eastern Africa.
  • familiaris (Ménétries, 1832)   -  Transcaucasia, south-eastern Turkey, Iraq and north-eastern and eastern Arabia east to southern Kazakhstan, eastern Iran, eastern Afghanistan and western Pakistan. Non-breeding north-eastern Africa.
  • minor (Cabanis, 1850)   -  Senegal and Gambia east to northern Somalia. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of African Scrub-Robin (Cercotrichas minor).
  • hamertoni (Ogilvie-Grant, 1906)   -  Eastern Somalia. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of African Scrub-Robin (Cercotrichas minor).



References
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Files:
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