Blue-capped Rock Thrush
Monticola cinclorhyncha(Vigors, NA, 1831)
English (US) Blue-capped Rock Thrush
The Blue-capped Rock Thrush (Monticola cinclorhyncha) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Muscicapidae (Chats, Old World Flycatchers, and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: breeds mountains of eastern Afghanistan, northern Pakistan and India; winters to MyanmarRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Monticola cinclorhyncha
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Blue-capped Rock Thrush
- Described by
- (Vigors, NA, 1831)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Petrocincla cinclorhyncha
- Described by
- (Vigors, NA, 1831)
- Type locality
- Himalayan mountains [= Simla, fide Baker, 1921, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, 27, p. 719].
- Original description
- Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London 1, no.14 p.172
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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