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Revision as of 20:59, 19 October 2018
- Saxicola maurus
Includes: Stejneger's Stonechat
Identification
Photo © by Alok Tewari
Sat Tal Forest, Alt. 5500 ft., Uttarakhand Himalayas, India, April-2015
12·5 cm (5 in)
Male
- Black head
- Distinctive white collar
- Black back
- White rump
- Black tail
- Black wings with a large white patch on the top side of the inner wing
- Dark orange-red upper breast
- White or pale orange lower breast and belly
Female
- Brown above and on head
- Indistinct pale eyebrow line
- Chestnut-buff underparts
Variations
- Male stejnegeri has less white on rump
Distribution
Found in Russia and Siberia, Turkey, the Caucasus, the Himalayas, China, Japan and Korea.
Vagrants recorded in Europe and Alaska.
Common in parts of its range.
Taxonomy
Formerly included in Common Stonechat.
Subspecies
Six subspecies recognized[1]:
- S. m. variegatus from the eastern Caucasus to northwest Iran
- S. m. armenicus from southeast Turkey to southwest Iran
- S. m. maurus from eastern Finland east to European Russia, Mongolia and Pakistan
- S. m. indicus in northwest and central Himalayas
- S. m. przewalskii in Tibet, central China and northern Burma
- S. m. stejnegeri in eastern Siberia, eastern Mongolia to Korea and Japan - sometimes recognized as full species, Stejneger's Stonechat.
Habitat
Open rough scrubland and rough grassland with scattered shrubs.
On migration may be found in drier areas.
Behaviour
Most often seen in pairs perched up on a stick or shrub. It flies down onto the ground, returning to the same perch. Often flicks its wings.
Diet
Eats almost entirely small or medium-sized insects and their larvae. Takes occasionally small vertebrates, seeds and fruit.
Hunts from low perches, flying down to take prey and very often returning to the same perch. Also sometimes sallies for aerial prey.
Breeding
Breeding season from end of April to late July, starts later (mid-May) in northern Siberia, April to August in the Himalayas.
The nest is well hidden inside a clump of vegetation and consists of an untidy bowl of grass and rootlets. It is lined neatly with rootlets and animal hairs.
Movements
A migratory species.
Vocalisation
<flashmp3>siberian_stonechat_call_alok.mp3</flashmp3>
Listen in an external program
Recording by Alok Tewari
Sat Tal Forest, Alt. 5500 ft., Uttarakhand Himalayas, India
Song given by a male in full breeding plumage.
Gallery
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Non-breeding male
Photo © by Yeshey Dorji
Punakha, western Bhutan, December 2004
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2018. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2018. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Del Hoyo, J, A Elliot, and D Christie, eds. 2005. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 10: Cuckoo-Shrikes to Thrushes. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-8487334726
- BirdLife International
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Siberian Stonechat. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 20 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Siberian_Stonechat
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