Chats, Old World Flycatchers, and Allies
Siberian Stonechat
Saxicola maurus
NENot Evaluated
- Family
- Chats, Old World Flycatchers, and Allies (Muscicapidae)
- Order
- Passeriformes
Overview
The Siberian stonechat or Asian stonechat (Saxicola maurus) is a recently validated species of the Old World flycatcher family (Muscicapidae). Like the other thrush-like flycatchers, it was often placed in the Turdidae in the past. It breeds in the East Palearctic including in easternmost Europe and winters in the Old World tropics.
Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Range and habitat
Continents
Countries
- Afghanistan
- Armenia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Bhutan
- Brunei
- China
- Denmark
- Egypt
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Georgia
- Germany
- Greece
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Kazakhstan
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Lebanon
- Malaysia
- Mongolia
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Poland
- Qatar
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore
- South Sudan
- Spain
- Sudan
- Sweden
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United States
- Uzbekistan
- Yemen
Sources and further reading
- Wikipedia: Siberian stonechat
- eBird: sightings, maps and photos
- xeno-canto: sound recordings
- IUCN Red List (threat status)
- AviList global checklist (taxonomy)
Last updated September 29, 2026.
