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Scrub-robin
The scrub robins or bush chats are medium-sized insectivorous birds in the genus ''Cercotrichas''. They were formerly in the thrush family, (Turdidae), but are more often now treated as part of the Old World flycatcher family, (Muscicapidae). They are not closely related to the Australian scrub-robins, genus '' Drymodes'' in the family Petroicidae. The genus name ''Cercotrichas'' is from Ancient Greek ''kerkos'', "tail" and ''trikhas'', "thrush".. Scrub robins are mainly African species of open woodland or scrub, which nest in bushes or on the ground, but the rufous-tailed scrub robin also breeds in southern Europe and east to Pakistan. The genus contains the following species: * Karoo scrub robin, ''Cercotrichas coryphaeus'' * Forest scrub robin, ''Cercotrichas leucosticta'' * Bearded scrub robin, ''Cercotrichas quadrivirgata'' * Miombo scrub robin, ''Cercotrichas barbata'' * Black scrub robin, ''Cercotrichas podobe'' * Rufous-tailed scrub robin, ''Cercotrichas galact ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brown Scrub Robin
The brown scrub robin (''Cercotrichas signata'') is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is found in Eswatini, Mozambique and, South Africa. Its natural habitat is subtropical dry or moist forest A forest is an area of land dominated by trees. Hundreds of definitions of forest are used throughout the world, incorporating factors such as tree density, tree height, land use, legal standing, and ecological function. The United Nations' ...s. Races There are two accepted races: * ''Cercotrichas signata'' subsp. ''signata'' – South African coastal bush and Afromontane forest :Description: Greyish brown plumage * ''Cercotrichas signata'' subsp. ''tongensis'' – coastal plain from northern KZN to southern Mozambique :Description: Smaller with shorter bill. Paler brown plumage above and warmer buff plumage below. More conspicuous supercilium and moustache stripe. References External links * Brown (scrub) robin Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalahari Scrub Robin
The Kalahari scrub robin (''Cercotricha paena'') is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is sometimes known as the sandy scrub robin. Range It is found in southern Angola, Botswana, Namibia, northern South Africa, and Zimbabwe, where it occurs in sandveld with low trees and scrub, on the edges of woodland, and in savanna. It will also inhabit human-altered environments including old fields and gardens. The species is common and not considered threatened by human activities. Breeding The Kalahari scrub robin is a seasonal breeder, with the season stretching from August to February, and peaking in November, also the peak of the wet season. The species is monogamous and territorial, with territory sizes varying from 0.7 - 4.3 ha. Females are responsible for constructing the nest, which are weaved of shrubs and grasses and placed in low thorny bushes. The nest building stage takes around 5 days. The average clutch size is about two, although clutch size is bigger later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin
The rufous-tailed scrub robin (''Cercotrichas galactotes'') is a medium-sized member of the family Muscicapidae. Other common names include the rufous scrub robin, rufous bush chat, rufous bush robin and the rufous warbler. It breeds around the Mediterranean and east to Pakistan. It also breeds south of the Sahara from the Sahel region east to Somalia; these African birds are sometimes considered to be a separate species, the African scrub robin (''C. minor''). It is partially migratory, wintering in Africa (Kenya, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia) and India. This is a very rare visitor to northern Europe. The scientific name is from Ancient Greek. ''Cercotrichas'' is from ''kerkos'', "tail" and ''trikhas'', "thrush", and ''galactotes'' means resembling milk, from ''gala'', "milk". The rufous-tailed scrub robin is a bird of dry open country with bushes and shrubs. It builds its nest a few feet off the ground; there are three to five eggs in a typical clutch. The rufous-tailed scr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Scrub Robin
The black scrub robin (''Cercotrichas podobe'') is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is found in Bahrain, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Israel, Jordan, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Its natural habitat is dry savanna A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close. The open canopy allows sufficient light to reach the ground to .... Gallery Image:Black Scrub-robin.ogv, Riyadh, KSA 1992 References black scrub robin Birds of the Sahel Birds of the Middle East black scrub robin Articles containing video clips Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Muscicapidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin
The rufous-tailed scrub robin (''Cercotrichas galactotes'') is a medium-sized member of the family Muscicapidae. Other common names include the rufous scrub robin, rufous bush chat, rufous bush robin and the rufous warbler. It breeds around the Mediterranean and east to Pakistan. It also breeds south of the Sahara from the Sahel region east to Somalia; these African birds are sometimes considered to be a separate species, the African scrub robin (''C. minor''). It is partially migratory, wintering in Africa (Kenya, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia) and India. This is a very rare visitor to northern Europe. The scientific name is from Ancient Greek. ''Cercotrichas'' is from ''kerkos'', "tail" and ''trikhas'', "thrush", and ''galactotes'' means resembling milk, from ''gala'', "milk". The rufous-tailed scrub robin is a bird of dry open country with bushes and shrubs. It builds its nest a few feet off the ground; there are three to five eggs in a typical clutch. The rufous-tailed scr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White-browed Scrub Robin
The white-browed scrub robin (''Cercotrichas leucophrys''), also known as the red-backed scrub-robin, is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is native to sub-Saharan Africa, especially East and southern Africa. Within range, its ''Turdus''-like song is one of the often-heard sounds of the bush. The flitting of the tail is characteristic of this species, but also of some near relatives. Taxonomy Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot described the white-browed scrub robin in 1817. The specific epithet is derived from the Ancient Greek words ''leukos'' "white" and ''ǒphrys'' "eyebrow". Subspecies For the white-browed scrub robin, some 9 to 12 subspecies are recognized: Two groups of subspecies are recognised, namely the 'white-winged' group of arid country, and the 'red-backed' group of mesic to moist habitats. Intergradation between these is apparently limited to subspecies ''brunneiceps'' and ''vulpina'' around Simba, Kenya. Otherwise the variation is clinal, though the extreme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakistan
Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's Islam by country#Countries, second-largest Muslim population just behind Indonesia. Pakistan is the List of countries and dependencies by area, 33rd-largest country in the world by area and 2nd largest in South Asia, spanning . It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by India to India–Pakistan border, the east, Afghanistan to Durand Line, the west, Iran to Iran–Pakistan border, the southwest, and China to China–Pakistan border, the northeast. It is separated narrowly from Tajikistan by Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor in the north, and also shares a maritime border with Oman. Islamabad is the nation's capital, while Karachi is its largest city and fina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brown-backed Scrub Robin
The brown-backed scrub robin (''Cercotrichas hartlaubi'') is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is found in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitat is moist savanna A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close. The open canopy allows sufficient light to reach the ground to .... References brown-backed scrub robin Birds of Central Africa brown-backed scrub robin Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Muscicapidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miombo Scrub Robin
The Miombo scrub robin (''Cercotrichas barbata''), is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is found in Angola, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forest A forest is an area of land dominated by trees. Hundreds of definitions of forest are used throughout the world, incorporating factors such as tree density, tree height, land use, legal standing, and ecological function. The United Nations' ...s. References Miombo scrub robin Birds of Southern Africa Miombo scrub robin Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Muscicapidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bearded Scrub Robin
The bearded scrub robin (''Cercotrichas quadrivirgata''), also known as the eastern bearded scrub robin, is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is found in eastern and southern Africa. Taxonomy This species was described as ''Thamnobia quadrivirgata'' by Reichenow in 1879. It was formerly placed in the genus ''Erythropygia''. It forms a superspecies with the forest scrub robin, miombo scrub robin and brown scrub robin. These four species are sometimes placed in the genus ''Tychaedon''. Two subspecies of ''C. quadrivirgata'' are recognized: ''C. q. greenwayi'' in the Zanzibar and Mafia Island, Mafia Islands, and ''C. q. quadrivirgata'' in the rest of the range. The specific name (zoology), specific epithet ''quadrivirgata'' means "four-striped" in Latin. The species is so named because of four diagnostic stripes on its face. Distribution and habitat It is found in Botswana, Eswatini, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forest Scrub Robin
The forest scrub robin (''Cercotrichas leucosticta'') is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae The Old World flycatchers are a large family, the Muscicapidae, of small passerine birds restricted to the Old World (Europe, Africa and Asia), with the exception of several vagrants and two species, Bluethroat (''Luscinia svecica)'' and Norther .... It is disjunctly present throughout the African tropical rainforest : * ''C. l. colstoni'' Tye, 1991 — Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ivory Coast * ''C. l. leucosticta'' (Sharpe, 1883) — Ghana * ''C. l. collsi'' (Alexander, 1907) — se Central African Republic, ne DR Congo and w Uganda * ''C. l. reichenowi'' (Hartert, 1907) — western Angola References forest scrub robin Birds of the African tropical rainforest forest scrub robin Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Muscicapidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karoo Scrub Robin
The Karoo scrub robin (''Cercotrichas coryphaeus'') or Karoo robin is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is found in Lesotho, Namibia, and South Africa. Its natural habitats are dry shrubland and Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation. Description It is 17 cm long and weighs 19 g. The upperparts are drab greyish brown; the face with a narrow, white supercilium above thin black eye-stripe. Partial whitish eye-ring below eye. Closed tail darker than rump and mantle. Upper wing coverts and flight feathers brown, underwing dull buffy brown. Bill black, eyes brown and legs as well as feet black. Song calls vary between individuals, e.g. ''chip, swee-chipswirraree, seeep-seeep-treeeeyer'', repeated 5 – 10 times. Habitat Favours bare ground beneath ca. 1 m high vegetation and can be found in the low shrublands of the Karoo and Namaqualand in South Africa, in drainage line woodland. Also occasionally seen among tall vegetation at the base of farm dam walls. Foraging ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
