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
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Binomial name | |
Saxicola macrorhynchus (Stoliczka, 1872)
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Synonyms | |
Saxicola macrorhyncha |
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.
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]