White-browed bush chat
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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 | |
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| Male in non-breeding plumage at Tal Chhapar Sanctuary, Rajasthan, India | |
| 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 | |
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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
Stolickza's bushchat
Stolickza's bushchat at Kutch
Notes
- Saxicola is masculine leading to the species epithet ending in -us
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