Blue-capped Rock-thrush

Taxobox
name = Blue-capped Rock Thrush
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1

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image_width = 200px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Turdidae
genus = "Monticola"
species = "M. cinclorhynchus"
binomial = "Monticola cinclorhynchus"
binomial_authority = (Vigors, 1832, Himalayan mountains)

The Blue-capped Rock-Thrush "Monticola cinclorhynchus" is a species of thrush that breeds in the foothills of the Himalayas and winters in the hill forests of southern India.

The male is bright blue and black on the upperparts with a prominent white wing mirror. The underside is rufous brown. The female is dark olive and appears barred on the underside.

Like other thrushes they fly up into trees and tend to freeze when disturbed.

It is a summer visitor in parts of Afghanistan and along the Himalayas from Pakistan to Arunachal Pradesh. In summer it is found in pine forests and hill slopes. In winter it is found in dense canopied forests.

[Rasmussen, P and Anderton, J. C. (2005) Birds of South Asia. The Ripley Guide. Vols 1 and 2. Smithsonian Institution and Lynx Edicions]

References

* Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern