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Chestnut-bellied Rock-Thrush
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Chestnut-bellied Rock-Thrush
Monticola rufiventris
The chestnut-bellied rock thrush (Monticola rufiventris) is a species of passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.
From the article Chestnut-bellied rock thrush on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The chestnut-bellied rock thrush is 21–23 cm (8.3–9.1 in) in overall length and weighs 48–61 g (1.7–2.2 oz). The male has a blue-grey crown and upperparts with darker lores and throat. The undersides are deep chestnut. The female has dull grey-brown upperparts and scalloped slate-grey with buffy-white underparts. The eyering and the post-auricular patch are whitish-buff.
Range & habitat
Its natural habitat is temperate forests. It is an altitudanal migrant and experiences Zugunruhe strongly the night before migration.
Wikipedia: “Habitat”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 13142.