Common Rock Thrush
Photo: Pierre Dalous · CC BY-SA 3.0

Chats, Old World Flycatchers, and Allies

Common Rock Thrush

Monticola saxatilis

LCLeast Concern
Family
Chats, Old World Flycatchers, and Allies (Muscicapidae)
Order
Passeriformes

Overview

The common rock thrush (Monticola saxatilis), also known as the rufous-tailed rock thrush or simply rock thrush, is a species of chat that breeds in southern Europe across Central Asia to northern China. This species is strongly migratory, all populations wintering in Africa south of the Sahara. It is an uncommon visitor to northern Europe. Its range has contracted somewhat at the periphery in recent decades due to habitat destruction.

Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Range and habitat

Breeds rocky regions of southern Palearctic region; winters to eastern Africa.

Range description: AviList Global Avian Checklist.

Sources and further reading

Last updated September 29, 2026.