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Species
Least Concernvia IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Saxicola
- Image
- African Stonechat (Saxicola torquatus) male (31251199192).jpg
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- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
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- Saxicola torquatus
- taxon name
- Saxicola torquatus
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- Saxicola torquatus
- egg incubation period
- 14
- taxon common name
- cartaxo-africano
- short name
- S. torquatus
- taxon range
- Africa
- taxon author citation
- (Linnaeus, 1766)
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Encyclopedic overview
Adult male S. t. axillaris from Kenya
The African stonechat or common stonechat (Saxicola torquatus) is a species of the Old World flycatcher family (Muscicapidae), inhabiting sub-Saharan Africa and adjacent regions. Like the other chats, it was long assigned to the thrush family (Turdidae), to which the chats are convergent. Its scientific name refer to its appearance and habitat and means "collared rock-dweller": Saxicola from Latin saxum ("rock") + incola ("one who dwells in a place"), torquatus, Latin for "collared".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “African Stonechat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.