White-browed bush chat

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.

White-browed bush chat
Male in non-breeding plumage at Tal Chhapar Sanctuary, Rajasthan, India
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific 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

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]

Gallery

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  Stolickza's bushchat
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  The puff and roll display of white-browed bush chat in Kutch region, India
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  Stolickza's bushchat at Kutch

Notes

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