Canary Islands stonechat

Canary Islands stonechat
Male on Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Muscicapidae
Genus: Saxicola
Species:
S. dacotiae
Binomial name
Saxicola dacotiae
(Meade-Waldo, 1889)

The Canary Islands stonechat (Saxicola dacotiae), also known as the Fuerteventura stonechat or Fuerteventura chat, and formerly known as the Canary Islands chat due to its once widespread distribution on the Canary Islands, is a sedentary resident bird found only on the island of Fuerteventura where it is known as the Caldereta.

Female Canary Islands stonechat
  1. ^ BirdLife International (2017) [amended version of 2016 assessment]. "Saxicola dacotiae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T22710177A111095282. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-1.RLTS.T22710177A111095282.en.