Cape Rock Thrush
Monticola rupestris(Vieillot, LJP, 1818)
English (US) Cape Rock Thrush
The Cape Rock Thrush (Monticola rupestris) 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: southeastern Botswana to southern Mozambique, Eswatini, and Cape ProvinceRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Monticola rupestris
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Cape Rock Thrush
- Described by
- (Vieillot, LJP, 1818)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Turdus rupestris
- Described by
- (Vieillot, LJP, 1818)
- Type locality
- near Cape Town [= Table Mountain, fide Sclater, 1930, Syst. Av. Aethiop., p. 449] .
- Original description
- Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine, etc. Nouvelle édition 20 p.281
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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