Short-toed Rock Thrush

Monticola brevipes (Waterhouse, 1838)

Short-toed Rock Thrush, Monticola brevipes, is a bird of southern Africa in the chat and Old World flycatcher family. Its breeding range is in the south of the continent, including Angola, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. It lives in subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. Birds from the eastern part of its range are sometimes treated as a separate species, known as the Pretoria rock thrush or Transvaal rock thrush, Monticola pretoriae.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Muscicapidae — Chats, Old World Flycatchers

Breeding range

Africa: s