African Stonechat

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Muscicapidae

Genus

Saxicola

eBird Code

afrsto1

Subspecies (16)

• Saxicola torquatus albofasciatus

  western and central Ethiopia, southeastern South Sudan, and northeastern Uganda

• Saxicola torquatus ankaratrae

  central Madagascar

• Saxicola torquatus axillaris

  highlands of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo to Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, and northern Tanzania

• Saxicola torquatus clanceyi

  coastal western Namibia to northwestern Cape Province

• Saxicola torquatus felix

  mountains of southwestern Arabia and Yemen

• Saxicola torquatus jebelmarrae

  western Sudan (Darfur region)

• Saxicola torquatus moptanus

  inner Niger delta, Mali, northern Senegal, and Senegal delta

• Saxicola torquatus nebularum

  highlands of Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia, and western Ivory Coast

• Saxicola torquatus oreobates

  highlands of Lesotho; winters to eastern Zimbabwe and southern Mozambique

• Saxicola torquatus promiscuus

  highlands of southern and southeastern Tanzania, northern and western Mozambique, eastern Zimbabwe, and Malawi

• Saxicola torquatus salax

  eastern Nigeria to northwestern Angola and Bioko (Gulf of Guinea)

• Saxicola torquatus sibilla

  Madagascar (except northern and central)

• Saxicola torquatus stonei

  southern Democratic Republic of the Congo and western Tanzania to southern and eastern Angola, northeastern Namibia, Zambia, central Zimbabwe, eastern and northern Botswana, and northern South Africa

• Saxicola torquatus torquatus

  South Africa (Western Cape to Limpopo) and western Eswatini

• Saxicola torquatus tsaratananae

  northern Madagascar

• Saxicola torquatus voeltzkowi

  Grand Comoro Island