The grey bush chat (''Saxicola ferreus'') is a species of

passerine A passerine () is any bird of the order Passeriformes (; from Latin 'sparrow' and '-shaped'), which includes more than half of all bird species. Sometimes known as perching birds, passerines are distinguished from other orders of birds by t ...

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 found in the

Himalayas The Himalayas, or Himalaya (; ; ), is a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The range has some of the planet's highest peaks, including the very highest, Mount Everest. Over 100 ...

, southern China, Taiwan,

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...

and mainland Southeast Asia. Its natural

habitat In ecology, the term habitat summarises the array of resources, physical and biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species. A species habitat can be seen as the physical ...

s are

subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests (TSMF), also known as tropical moist forest, is a subtropical and tropical forest habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature. Description TSMF is generally found in large, discont ...

and subtropical or tropical moist

montane forest Montane ecosystems are found on the slopes of mountains. The alpine climate in these regions strongly affects the ecosystem because temperatures fall as elevation increases, causing the ecosystem to stratify. This stratification is a crucial f ...

Gallery

File:Grey Bushchat (Male) I IMG 6746.jpg, Male with the feed for juveniles at 8,000 ft.in Kullu - Manali District of Himachal Pradesh, India File:Grey Bushchat (Male)- Himachal- I IMG 3193.jpg, Male at 8,000 ft.in Kullu - Manali District of Himachal Pradesh, India File:Grey Bushchat (Female)- Himachal- I2 IMG 3246.jpg, Female with the feed for juveniles at 8,000 ft. in Kullu - Manali District of Himachal Pradesh, India File:Grey Bushchat at Sattal India DSCN9911 1.jpg, Male Grey Bushchat at

Sattal Sattal or Sat Tal (Hindi for "seven lakes") is an interconnected group of seven freshwater lakes situated in the Lower Himalayan Range near Bhimtal, a town of the Nainital district in Uttarakhand, India. During the British Raj, the area had a t ...

India File:Grey bush chat (Saxicola ferreus) 1.jpg, At

Nagarkot Nagarkot ( ne, नगरकोट) is a former Village Development Committee located 32 km west of Kathmandu, Nepal in Bhaktapur District in Bagmati Province and as of 2015 part of Nagarkot Municipality. At the time of the 2011 census it ha ...

, Nepal

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Xeno-canto: audio recordings of the grey bush chat
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