Stoliczka's Bushchat

Taxobox
name = Stoliczka's Bushchat
status = StatusVulnerable


image_caption = In the Kutch region of India
status = VU | status_system = IUCN3.1
status_ref = [IUCN2006|assessors=BirdLife International|year=2004|id=19931|title=Saxicola macrorhynchus|downloaded=09 May 2006]
trend = down
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Muscicapidae
genus = "Saxicola"
species = "S. macrorhynchus"
binomial = "Saxicola macrorhynchus"
binomial_authority = Stoliczka, 1872
synonyms = "Saxicola macrorhyncha"

Stoliczka's Bushchat, "Saxicola macrorhynchus","Saxicola" is masculine leading to the species epithet ending in "-us"] is an Old World flycatcher in the genus "Saxicola". It is also known as the White-browed Bushchat. The name is after the discoverer, geologist and explorer Ferdinand Stoliczka.

This desert specialist has a small, declining population because of agricultural intensification and encroachment, which qualifies it as vulnerable.

Stolizkca's Bushchat is found in an area of semi- arid country in north-western India and eastern Pakistan. It has apparently strayed as far east as the Bharatpur area of Rajasthan and as far south as Goa and Pune, [cite journal|author=Rao, Rahul|year=2007|title=Sighting of Stoliczka's Bushchat "Saxicola macrorhynchus" in Pune District, Maharashtra, Western India.|journal=J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc.|volume=104|issue=2|apges=214] with two simultaneous historical records from southern Afghanistan.

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Other sources

* [http://www.rdb.or.id/view_html.php?id=35&op=saximacr Red-Data Book Species Information]
* [http://www.montereybay.com/creagrus/bushchat_whbrow.html Endangered and Threatened Birds of the World, a photo discussion by Don Roberson]
*Urquhart, E. & Bowley, A. 2002. "Stonechats. A Guide to the Genus Saxicola". Helm. ISBN 0-7136-6024-4