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| − | [[Image:Stonechat_male.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by {{user|IanF|IanF}}<br>Photographed: Zinc Works Road, Seaton Carew, Cleveland, [[UK]]<br />European Stonechat]]
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| − | ;[[:Category:Saxicola|Saxicola]] torquatus
| + | '''Common Stonechat''' may refer to one of three species previously considered conspecific under the name '''Common Stonechat''' (''Saxicola torquatus''): |
| − | '''Includes: Siberian Stonechat; African Stonechat; European Stonechat''' | |
| − | ==Identification==
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| − | [[Image:African_Stonechat.jpg|thumb|450px|right|Photo by {{user|Mybs|Mybs}}<br />African Stonechat]]
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| − | Black head, white half-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. Siberian Stonechat have a distinctive white collar.<br />
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| − | '''Females''' brown above and on head, indistinct paler eyebrow line, chestnut-buff rather than orange below, and less white on the wings. | |
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| − | ==Distribution==
| + | *'''[[European Stonechat]]''' - ''Saxicola rubicola'' |
| − | Found in [[Europe]] (mainly S and W), [[Africa]] (including [[Madagascar]]), [[Russia]] and [[Siberia]], [[Turkey]], the [[Caucasus]], the [[Himalayas]], [[China]], [[Japan]] and [[Korea]].
| + | *'''[[African Stonechat]]''' - ''Saxicola torquatus'' |
| − | | + | *'''[[Siberian Stonechat]]''' - ''Saxicola maurus'' |
| − | ==Taxonomy==
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| − | [[Image:Siberian_Stonechat.jpg|thumb|450px|right|Photo by {{user|Yeshey+Dorji|Yeshey Dorji}}<br/>Photo taken: Punakha, western [[Bhutan]].<br />Siberian Stonechat]]
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| − | About 25 subspecies accepted.<br />
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| − | There are three distinctive groups, which are sometimes accepted as full species:
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| − | * '''European Stonechat''' (''Saxicola rubicola'') from [[Europe]] (W and S) and North [[Africa]] | |
| − | * '''African Stonechat''' (''Saxicola torquatus'') in [[Africa]] south of the Sahara (including [[Madagascar]], the [[Grand Comoro Island]] and the mountains of southwest [[Arabia]]) | |
| − | * '''Siberian Stonechat''' (''Saxicola maurus'') from the lower Volga east to [[Siberia]], E [[Turkey]], [[China]], the [[Himalayas]], [[Japan]] and [[Korea]] | |
| − | ==Habitat==
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| − | Open rough scrubland and rough grassland with scattered shrubs. It is also found in pastures and fields. In many areas it is resident, but some birds are non-breeding migrants, and in that case are not restricted to damp areas, but may be found in open drier country. It is usually seen in pairs and usually perches up on a stick or shrub. It flies down onto the ground, and often flicks its wings.
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| − | ==Behaviour==
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| − | This species eats mainly insects and worms.
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| − | African birds breed mainly in the summer months. 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.
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| − | ==External Links==
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| − | {{GSearch|Saxicola+torquatus Use torquatus for}}
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| − | {{GSearch|Saxicola+rubicola Use rubicola}}
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| − | {{GSearch|Saxicola+maurus Use maurus}}
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| − | This link finds videos titled "European Stonechat"
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| − | {{Video|European_Stonechat}}
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| − | [[Category:Birds]] [[Category:Saxicola]][[Category:Videos]]
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