Siberian Stonechat (BBRC)

Siberian Stonechat Saxicola maurus

Rare vagrant. Until 2011, the Asian taxa of stonechats were regarded as subspecies of the Common Stonechat Saxicola torquata but they have now been separated as a full species S. maurus with the European birds placed in S. rubicola (see Holt et al. 2017 for a summary). It is expected that further taxonomical juggling will result in an additional split, with the eastern Asian S. m. stejnegeri given full species status in the near future.

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