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Blue Rock Thrush
Monticola solitarius · Family Muscicapidae
Monticola solitarius
Family Muscicapidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Muscicapidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 315,155
- Countries and territories with records
- 125
About this species
This species has 315,155 occurrence records from 125 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Spain (24.4%), Taiwan (19.5%), Japan (8.4%), India (7.6%) and Portugal (5.9%); together they account for 65.8% of the total. In Spain, this species accounts for 0.15% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Monticola solitarius combines the genus name Monticola with the species epithet solitarius. The Warbla app catalog lists 13 species of the genus Monticola; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Monticola saxatilis, Monticola rupestris and Monticola rufiventris.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 316 species of the family Muscicapidae. This species ranks 16th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Erithacus rubecula. Its record count is 2.7 times the family average (117,032). The family Muscicapidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.