| Rock thrushes | |
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| Male Short-toed Rock Thrush, Monticola brevipes | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Muscicapidae |
| Genus: | Monticola F. Boie, 1822 |
| Species | |
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13, see text |
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| Synonyms | |
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Pseudocossyphus |
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The rock thrushes, Monticola, are a genus of chats, medium-sized mostly insectivorous or omnivorous songbirds. They were in former times placed in the thrush family Turdidae but actually belong in the closely related Muscicapidae. All are Old World birds, and most are associated with mountainous regions.
Three of the species are sometimes separated in Pseudocossyphus.