Sentinel rock thrush

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Sentinel rock thrush
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Male and female in Table Mountain National Park, Cape Town, South Africa
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Muscicapidae
Genus: Monticola
Species:
M. explorator
Binomial name
Monticola explorator
(Vieillot, 1818)

The sentinel rock thrush (Monticola explorator) is a species of passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae that is found in Lesotho, South Africa, and Eswatini. Its natural habitat is rocky outcrops in high-altitude grassland. [2]

It is insectivorous. [3]

Taxonomy

The sentinel rock thrush was formally described in 1818 by the French ornithologist Louis Vieillot under the binomial name Turdus explorator. [4] [5] The specific epithet explorator is Latin meaning "scout", "explorer" or "searcher". [6] Vieillot based his account on "L'Espionneur" from the mountains of the Cape of Good Hope that had been described and illustrated in 1802 by the French naturalist François Levaillant in his book Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux d'Afrique. [7] The sentinel rock thrush is now one of 15 species placed in the genus Monticola that was introduced in 1822 by the German naturalist Friedrich Boie. [8]

References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2017). "Monticola explorator". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2017: e.T22708233A118948206. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T22708233A118948206.en . Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. ↑ Harrison, J.A. (1997). "Sentinel rock thrush" (PDF). In Harrison, J.A.; Allan, D.G.; Underhill, L.G.; Herremans, M.; Tree, A.J.; Parker, V.; Brown, C.J. (eds.). The Atlas of Southern African Birds. Vol. 2: Passerines. Johannesburg: BirdLife South Africa. pp. 162–164. ISBN   978-0-620-20731-7.
  3. ↑ Seleteng-Kose, Lerato; Kobisi, Khotso; Pool-Stanvliet, Ruida; Mohapi, Khotso (2021-08-25). "A rapid biodiversity assessment of Lesotho's first proposed Biosphere Reserve: a case study of Bokong Nature Reserve and Tšehlanyane National Park". Bothalia - African Biodiversity & Conservation. 51 (2). doi: 10.38201/btha.abc.v51.i2.6 . ISSN   2311-9284.
  4. ↑ Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1818). Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine, etc (in French). Vol. 20 (Nouvelle édition ed.). Paris: Deterville. p. 260.
  5. ↑ Mayr, Ernst; Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, eds. (1964). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 135.
  6. ↑ Jobling, James A. "explorator". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
  7. ↑ Levaillant, François (1802). Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux d'Afrique (in French). Vol. 3. Paris: Delachauchée. pp. 29–32, Plate 103.
  8. ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (February 2025). "Chats, Old World flycatchers". IOC World Bird List Version 15.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
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