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  • Chat

    The name is normally applied to the more robust ground-feeding flycatchers found in Europe and Asia.
    These species were formerly classified as members of the thrush family (Turdidae), but now placed in the Old World flycatcher family (Muscicapidae).
    Chats make up most of the sub-family Saxicolinae, or commonly known as bush chat.

    The European robin or simply robin belongs to the Chat sub-family.

  • Saxicola

    The chats, which are insectivorous, robust ground-feeding and strong migrants, now belong to the Old World flycatcher family (Muscicapidae).


    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.


    1/ Common Stonechat (Sẻ bụi đầu đen, Saxicola torquatus), also African stonechat 
    This species is considered superspecies now:
     African stonechat Saxicola torquatus in the strict sense
     European stonechat Saxicola rubicola
     Siberian stonechat Saxicola maurus
     Madagascar stonechat Saxicola sibilla


    Newly added to this superspecies:
     Fuerteventura chat Saxicola dacotiae
     Reunion stonechat Saxicola tectes
     White-tailed stonechat Saxicola leucurus


    2/ Pied Bushchat (Sẻ bụi đen, Saxicola caprata)
    3/ Jerdon's Bushchat (Sẻ bụi lưng xanh, Saxicola jerdoni)


    4/ Grey Bush Chat (Sẻ bụi xám, Saxicola ferreus)

    Gray bush chat


    5/ Siberian stonechat or Asian stonechat (Saxicola maurus) 
    Sẻ bụi đầu đen

    6/ Amur stonechat,  or Stejneger's stonechat
    Saxicola stejnegeri
    The Latin binomial commemorates the Norwegian ornithologist Leonhard Hess Stejneger.

     

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