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Amber Mountain Rock Thrush
Monticola erythronotus (Lavauden, 1929)
Muscicapidae — Chats, Old World Flycatchers
Amber Mountain Rock Thrush, Monticola erythronotus, is a passerine of the family Muscicapidae that breeds in extreme north Madagascar. It is confined to the Amber Mountain massif, where it lives in humid evergreen forest at mid to montane levels. The bird is a small forest thrush, and males are set apart by a dark rufous back. Females do not show a blue hood, and their tails are bright orange. It was described by Lavauden in 1929 and is now treated as a full species.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Muscicapidae — Chats, Old World Flycatchers
- Breeding range
- Africa: extreme n Madagascar
