Chestnut-bellied Rock-Thrush Monticola rufiventris Scientific name definitions
- LC Least Concern
- Names (30)
- Monotypic
Text last updated September 13, 2017
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Species names in all available languages
Language | Common name |
---|---|
Bangla (India) | শুগানে |
Catalan | merla roquera de ventre castany |
Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China) | 栗腹磯鶇 |
Chinese (SIM) | 栗腹矶鸫 |
Croatian | kestenjastotrbi kamenjar |
Danish | Stor Stendrossel |
Dutch | Roodbuikrotslijster |
English | Chestnut-bellied Rock-Thrush |
English (Kenya) | Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush |
English (UK) | Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush |
English (United States) | Chestnut-bellied Rock-Thrush |
French | Monticole à ventre marron |
French (Canada) | Monticole à ventre marron |
German | Kastanienbauchrötel |
Hindi | कत्थई पेट शैल कस्तूरा |
Japanese | カオグロイソヒヨドリ |
Nepali (India) | हजारा चांचर |
Nepali (Nepal) | हजारा चाँचर |
Norwegian | kastanjebuksteintrost |
Polish | nagórnik kasztanowobrzuchy |
Punjabi (India) | ਲਾਲ-ਉਦਰ ਕਸਤੂਰੀ |
Russian | Краснобрюхий каменный дрозд |
Serbian | Kestenjasti kos kamenjar |
Slovak | skaliar gaštanový |
Spanish | Roquero Ventrirrufo |
Spanish (Spain) | Roquero ventrirrufo |
Swedish | kastanjebukig stentrast |
Thai | นกกระเบื้องท้องแดง |
Turkish | Kestane Karınlı Taşkızılı |
Ukrainian | Скеляр рудочеревий |
Monticola rufiventris (Jardine & Selby, 1833)
Definitions
- MONTICOLA
- monticola
- rufiventer / rufiventra / rufiventre / rufiventris
The Key to Scientific Names
Legend Overview
Field Identification
21–23 cm; 48–61 g. Male has grey-blue crown and upperparts, with blackish lores and ear-coverts continuing onto shoulders and merging with deep bluish-black throat, sharply divided from deep chestnut underside ; in non-breeding plumage, mantle and scapulars show whitish scaling, whitish wingbar. Female is dull grey-brown above, scalloped slate-grey and buffy-white below , with whitish-buff eyering, mesial stripe and prominent post-auricular patch. Juvenile is like female, but spotted and barred buffish above, wings edged buffish.
Systematics History
Subspecies
Distribution
N Pakistan (Murree Hills) E in Himalayas to NE India (including S Assam hills), Myanmar, SW & SE China (S from S Shaanxi and Zhejiang), NW Thailand (Doi Inthanon) and N Indochina; non-breeding S to N Thailand.
Habitat
Movement
Diet and Foraging
Mainly insects, such as craneflies, and including large ones such as cicadas (which are battered on branch before swallowing); also molluscs and small lizards, sometimes berries. Forages mainly on ground , but often perches high in bare trees, and makes occasional aerial sallies.
Sounds and Vocal Behavior
Song , by male from top of tall tree or (when often more continuous) in short flight between trees, reminiscent of M. cinclorhyncha song but thinner and more subdued yet more varied, a series of sweet, short, sibilant but subdued undulating warbles, starting hesitantly with some level notes and becoming a rapid tinkling flurry, sometimes with last note slightly offset, “teetatewleedee-tweet tew” or “twew-twi-er tre-twi teedle-desh”, lasting only 1·5 seconds and repeated at intervals; also includes piercing, slightly downslurred “police-whistle” note followed by quick upslurred “fweeeur-fweet!” Subsong reminiscent of quiet version of Sturnus starling song, a sustained bubbling and warbling interspersed with wheezy notes, babbling calls and grating notes. Calls include deep, loud, rattling squirrel-like “chhrrr” in alarm, a strange downslurred, twangy buzzing, a dry twitter, a sharp querulous “quach” and thin shrill “tick”.
Breeding
Conservation Status
- Year-round
- Migration
- Breeding
- Non-Breeding