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English African Stonechat
Scientific (Saxicola torquatus stonei)
Order PASSERIFORMES
Family (Latin) Muscicapidae
Family (English) Chats, Old World Flycatchers
Other name(s) Common Stonechat, Traquet pâtre, Stonechat, Eurasian Stonechat
Breeding Regions AF
Breeding Range Subregions sw Arabian Pen. and Sub-Saharan Africa
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Angola,Botswana,Burundi,Cameroon,Chad,Comoros,Democratic Republic of Congo,Equatorial Guinea,Ethiopia,Gabon, Guinea,Ivory Coast,Kenya,Lesotho,Madagascar,Malawi,Mali,Mozambique,Namibia,Nigeria, Rwanda,Senegal,Sierra Leone,South Africa,South Sudan,Sudan,Swaziland,Tanzania,Uganda,Zambia, Zimbabwe,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
felix sw Saudi Arabia and w Yemen
oreobates Lesotho
torquatus c South Africa
clanceyi coastal w South Africa
stonei e, s Angola to sw Tanzania s to n South Africa and Botswana
salax e Nigeria to nw Angola and Bioko I.
promiscuus s Tanzania to e Zimbabwe and w Mozambique
axillaris e DR Congo, Kenya and n, w Tanzania
nebularum Sierra Leone and w Ivory Coast
moptanus Senegal and s Mali
jebelmarrae e Chad and w Sudan
albofasciatus se Sudan and ne Uganda to c Ethiopia
voeltzkowi montane Grande Comore (=Njazidja; nw Comoros)
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Linnaeus, 1766)
German Afrikaschwarzkehlchen
French Tarier d’Afrique
Chinese 非洲石䳭
Japanese ニシノビタキ
Russian Африканский черноголовый чекан
Spanish Tarabilla común
Portuguese cartaxo-africano
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Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)