Chats, Old World Flycatchers, and Allies
Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin
Cercotrichas galactotes
LCLeast Concern
- Family
- Chats, Old World Flycatchers, and Allies (Muscicapidae)
- Order
- Passeriformes
Overview
The rufous-tailed scrub robin (Cercotrichas galactotes) is a medium-sized member of the family Muscicapidae. Other common names include the rufous scrub robin, rufous bush chat, rufous bush robin and the rufous warbler. It breeds around the Mediterranean and east to Pakistan. It also breeds south of the Sahara from the Sahel region east to Somalia; these African birds are sometimes considered to be a separate species, the African scrub robin (C. minor).
Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Range and habitat
Countries
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Burkina Faso
- Cameroon
- Chad
- China
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Georgia
- Germany
- Greece
- India
- Iran
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Lebanon
- Libya
- Mali
- Malta
- Mauritania
- Moldova
- Morocco
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Qatar
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Spain
- Sudan
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- United Arab Emirates
- Uzbekistan
- Western Sahara
- Yemen
Sources and further reading
- Wikipedia: Rufous-tailed scrub robin
- eBird: sightings, maps and photos
- xeno-canto: sound recordings
- Birds of the World: full species account (subscription)
- BirdLife DataZone: status and threats
- IUCN Red List (threat status)
- AviList global checklist (taxonomy)
Last updated September 29, 2026.
