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Siberian Stonechat

Old World Flycatchers

Photo: Shantanu Kuveskar · CC BY-SA 4.0 (May be cropped or resized)

Saxicola maurus

Basic stats

Diet

Invertebrates

Habitat

Open rough scrubland or rough grassland with scattered shrubs, from sea level to about 4,000m or more

Range

Breeds in the East Palearctic including easternmost Europe; winters from southern Japan south to Thailand and India, and west to north-east Africa

The Siberian, or Asian, stonechat is a recently validated species of the Old World flycatcher family. It resembles the European stonechat but is typically darker above and paler below, with a white rump and whiter underparts with less orange on the breast. The male in breeding plumage has black upperparts and head, a conspicuous white collar, scapular patch and rump and a restricted area of orange on the throat, closely resembling the whinchat; the female has pale brown upperparts and head, white neck patches and a pale, unstreaked pinkish-yellow rump (Wikipedia, general species account).

It breeds in open rough scrubland or grassland with scattered shrubs from sea level to about 4,000 m or more, and is migratory, wintering from southern Japan to Thailand and India and west to north-east Africa (Wikipedia, general species account).

Quick answers

What does the Siberian Stonechat eat?
Invertebrates
What habitat does the Siberian Stonechat live in?
Open rough scrubland or rough grassland with scattered shrubs, from sea level to about 4,000m or more
Where is the Siberian Stonechat found?
Breeds in the East Palearctic including easternmost Europe; winters from southern Japan south to Thailand and India, and west to north-east Africa
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