Rock thrush

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The rock thrushes, Monticola, are a genus of chats, medium-sized mostly insectivorous or omnivorous songbirds. All are Old World birds, and most are associated with mountainous regions.

Taxonomy

The genus was erected by the German naturalist Friedrich Boie in 1822.[1][2] Monticola is the Latin word for mountain-dweller or mountaineer.[3] The genus was formerly included in the thrush family Turdidae.[4] Molecular phylogenetic studies published in 2004 and 2010 showed that the species are more closely related to members of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.[5][6]

The genus contains the following species:[7]

Image Common Name Scientific Name Distribution
File:Blue-capped rock thrush (Monticola cinclorhyncha) 037.jpg Blue-capped rock thrush Monticola cinclorhyncha Himalayas; winters to western and eastern Ghats
File:4G4A2289.jpg White-throated rock thrush Monticola gularis Manchuria
File:Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush Male at Almora DSCN8228 11.jpg Chestnut-bellied rock thrush Monticola rufiventris Himalayas, Patkai and southern China
- Short-toed rock thrush Monticola brevipes arid areas of southwestern Angola and southern Africa
File:Monticola explorator -Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa -male-8.jpg Sentinel rock thrush Monticola explorator southern Africa
File:Amber mountain rock thrush (Monticola sharpei erythronotus) male 2.jpg Amber Mountain rock thrush Monticola erythronotus Amber Mountain, Madagascar
File:Forest Rock-Thrush (Monticola sharpei), Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar.jpg Forest rock thrush Monticola sharpei Madagascar
File:Benson's rock thrush (Monticola sharpei bensoni).jpg Benson's rock thrush Monticola sharpei bensoni southern-central Madagascar
File:Littoral Rock Thrush, Ambola, Madagascar 2.jpg Littoral rock thrush Monticola imerina southern coastal Madagascar
- Little rock thrush Monticola rufocinereus eastern Afromontane
File:Codirossone 1-Passo dello Spluga (SO).png Common rock thrush Monticola saxatilis temperate rocky regions of Palearctic; winters to Africa
File:Blue Rock Thrush (Monticola solitarius) (27649993912).jpg Blue rock thrush Monticola solitarius temperate and elevated areas of Palearctic;
winters to Africa, Arabia and Indomalaya
File:Monticola rupestris -Marakele National Park, South Africa -male-8 (1).jpg Cape rock thrush Monticola rupestris southern Africa
File:Miombo Rock-Thrush, Kakanda, DRC (5812572406).jpg Miombo rock thrush Monticola angolensis Miombo woodlands
File:Myrmecocichla semirufa -Ethiopia-8 (cropped).jpg White-winged cliff chat Monticola semirufus Ethiopian Highlands

Fossil record

Monticola pongraczi (Pliocene of Beremend, Hungary) [8]

References

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Further reading

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