Siberian Stonechat
Bird alert - SS sighted at Sg Balang Melaka
by Ang. I did not know we have this bird visiting us in Peninsula Malaysia. I
got my lifer in Inle Lake Myanmar in Nov 2011. Though it is considered widespread & common in many parts of the northern hemisphere; it is a rarity for us in Malaysia. The breeding range covers most of temperate Asia, from about latitude 71°N in Siberia south to the Himalaya India and southwest China, and west to eastern Turkey and the Caspian Sea area. It also breeds in the far northeast of Europe, mainly in Russia.
The wintering range of the migratory bird is from southern Japan south to Thailand and India, and west to northeast Africa. On migration, small numbers reach as far west as western Europe, and exceptionally as far east as Alaska in North America.
The Siberian Stonechat is insectivorous. It breeds in open rough scrubland or rough grassland with scattered shrubs, from sea level to about 4,000 m ASL or more. The birds seem to avoid even cool temperate conditions and stay up north only during the hot continental summer. In the montane regions of the Himalaya foothills of Bhutan, migrants can on occasion be seen foraging in fields and pastures more than 2,000 m ASL, but most move further down and south to winter in tropical regions.
November 2018 was in Batang Tiga managed to shoot a solidary Siberian Stonechat (Female).
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