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.