Blue Rock Thrush
The Blue Rock Thrush is a Starling-sized chat named for the distinctive deep blue colouration of the male, which is slightly brighter around the eyes, head and throat and darker and browner on the wings and tail. The female is duller, most often a brownish blue-grey above, streaked buff and brown on the lower parts of the face and upper chest and with buff-brown barring on the lower breast and undertail
The Blue Rock Thrush is a widespread species with breeding and non-breeding populations spanning from north west Africa, throughout southern Europe, the Arabian Peninsula, northern India and the central Himalayas to China, Mongolia, Japan and South East Asia. The European, north African and south east Asian birds are mainly resident apart from altitudinal movements. This Blue Rock Thrush is a very uncommon visitor to northern and western Europe.
The Blue Rock Thrush breeds mainly on cliffs, in rocky valleys and gorges, on crags, outcrops, sea cliffs and rocky coasts. It also breeds occasionally in ruins, quarries, isolated stone buildings and on houses, churches, castles and monuments. Depending on the location, the Blue Rock Thrush can be found from sea level up to elevations of over 13,000 feet. The wintering habitat is more varied but it is still often associated with areas of bare rock, and includes foothills, valleys, towns, olive groves and gardens, areas of woody vegetation on rocky slopes and isolated hills in rainforest and savannah.
Date: 25th April 2012
Location: Embalse del Jándula, Sierra de Andújar, Andalucia, Spain
The Blue Rock Thrush is a widespread species with breeding and non-breeding populations spanning from north west Africa, throughout southern Europe, the Arabian Peninsula, northern India and the central Himalayas to China, Mongolia, Japan and South East Asia. The European, north African and south east Asian birds are mainly resident apart from altitudinal movements. This Blue Rock Thrush is a very uncommon visitor to northern and western Europe.
The Blue Rock Thrush breeds mainly on cliffs, in rocky valleys and gorges, on crags, outcrops, sea cliffs and rocky coasts. It also breeds occasionally in ruins, quarries, isolated stone buildings and on houses, churches, castles and monuments. Depending on the location, the Blue Rock Thrush can be found from sea level up to elevations of over 13,000 feet. The wintering habitat is more varied but it is still often associated with areas of bare rock, and includes foothills, valleys, towns, olive groves and gardens, areas of woody vegetation on rocky slopes and isolated hills in rainforest and savannah.
Date: 25th April 2012
Location: Embalse del Jándula, Sierra de Andújar, Andalucia, Spain
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Also in: South and west Spain - April and May 2012
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