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English Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin
Scientific (Cercotrichas galactotes)
Order PASSERIFORMES
Family (Latin) Muscicapidae
Family (English) Chats, Old World Flycatchers
Other name(s) Rufous Bush Robin, Rufous-tailed Scrub-robin, Agrobate roux, Rufous Bush Chat, Rufous-tailed Scrub-Robin
Regions PAL
Breeding Range Subregions sc, sw
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA) map Somalia,Ethiopia,Equatorial Guinea,Portugal,Nigeria,Turkey,Tunisia,Morocco,Mali,Croatia,Israel,India - mainland,Malta,Algeria,Serbia,Azerbaijan,Bulgaria,Lebanon,Iraq,Niger,Ukraine,Romania,Cameroon,Greece,Burkina Faso,Uzbekistan,United Arab Emirates,Libya,Syria,Pakistan,Sri Lanka,Gibraltar,Western Sahara,Eritrea,Armenia,Saudi Arabia,Oman,Turkmenistan,Qatar,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Djibouti,Tajikistan,Spain,Kenya,Egypt,Macedonia,Switzerland,Norway,Iran,Mauritania,Kyrgyzstan,Russia,Finland,Tanzania,Chad,Kazakhstan,Jordan,Uganda,Yemen,Gambia,Bahrain,Kuwait,Georgia,Sudan,Afghanistan,Senegal,Albania,Central African Republic,Democratic Republic of Congo,South Sudan,Montenegro,
Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
galactotes Iberian Pen., n Africa, Israel and sw Syria
syriaca Balkans to w, s Turkey, w Syria and Lebanon
familiaris se Turkey, Iraq and n, ne Arabia to s Kazakhstan, e Afghanistan and w Pakistan
minor Senegal and Gambia to n Somalia
hamertoni e Somalia
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Temminck, 1820)
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German Heckensänger
French Agrobate roux
Chinese 棕薮鸲
Japanese オタテヤブコマドリ
Russian Тугайный соловей
Spanish Alzacola rojizo
Portuguese rouxinol-do-mato-ruivo
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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)