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Canary Islands Stonechat
Saxicola dacotiae (Meade-Waldo, 1889)
Muscicapidae — Chats, Old World Flycatchers
Canary Islands Stonechat, Saxicola dacotiae, is a passerine in the Muscicapidae family that breeds in the Canary Islands, with its range confined to Fuerteventura. It is a resident bird and is known locally as the Caldereta. The species is distinct from the common stonechat and is thought to have arisen from ancestral European stonechats that reached the islands in the Early Pleistocene. It is found in barrancos, rocky slopes and ravines with open, shrubby cover, and it also uses more arid ground at times. Males sing from exposed perches and may hunt insects in flight.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Muscicapidae — Chats, Old World Flycatchers
- Breeding range
- Africa: e Canary Is. (c Macaronesia, nw of n Africa)
