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
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Muscicapidae
Genus: Saxicola
Species:
S. macrorhynchus
Binomial name
Saxicola macrorhynchus
Stoliczka, 1872
Synonyms

Saxicola macrorhyncha

Stolickza's Bushchat at Kutch

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]

  • Stolizka
  • The puff and roll display of white-browed bush chat in Kutch region, India

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

References
  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Saxicola macrorhynchus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Mandhro, Sameer (16 May 2020). "Rare bird sighted after 98 long years". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  3. Rao, Rahul (2007). "Sighting of Stoliczka's Bushchat Saxicola macrorhynchus in Pune District, Maharashtra, Western India". J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 104 (2): 214.

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