Siberian stonechat or Asian stonechat (Saxicola maurus)
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The Siberian stonechat or Asian stonechat (Saxicola maurus) is a recently validated species of the Old World flycatcher family (Muscicapidae).
The bird's breeding range: most of temperate Asia, from Siberia south to the Himalaya and southwest China, and west to eastern Turkey and the Caspian Sea area, far northeast of Europe, mainly in Russia, occasionally as far west as Finland.
The wintering range: from southern Japan south to Thailand and India, and west to northeast Africa. On migration, small numbers reach as far west as western Europe, and exceptionally as far east as Alaska in North America.
Saxicola in Latin: saxum, rock + incola, dwelling in.
The stonechats or chats, is a genus of 15 species of small passerine birds restricted to the Old World.
maurus, maura is Latinized from Greek maúros (μαύρος) "black".