Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush (Monticola rufiventris)
About the Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush
The chestnut-bellied rock thrush (Monticola rufiventris) is a species of passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. The chestnut-bellied rock thrush is 21–23 cm (8.3–9.1 in) in overall length and weighs 48–61 g (1.7–2.2 oz). The male has a blue-grey crown and upperparts with darker lores and throat. The undersides are deep chestnut. The female has dull grey-brown upperparts and scalloped slate-grey with buffy-white underparts. The eyering and the post-auricular patch are whitish-buff. Its natural habitat is temperate forests. It is an altitudanal migrant and experiences Zugunruhe strongly the night before migration. It is native to the Himalayas, Purvanchal Range and southern China; some birds winter to northern Indochina.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 24 recordings for this species: 6 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in China, India, Nepal, Thailand in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Blue Rock ThrushMonticola solitariusrecording
- Common Rock ThrushMonticola saxatilisrecording
- Little Rock ThrushMonticola rufocinereusrecording
- Short-toed Rock ThrushMonticola brevipesrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.