Family: Muscicapidae (Old World Flycatchers and Chats)

Authority: (Stoliczka, 1872)

Red List Category

Criteria: C2a(i)

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Justification of Red List category
This semi-arid desert specialist is poorly known, but is thought to have a small, declining population as a result of agricultural intensification and encroachment, which qualifies it as Vulnerable.

Population size: 2500-9999 mature individuals

Population trend: decreasing

Extent of occurrence (breeding/resident): 97,400 km²

Country endemic: no

Attributes
Land-mass type - continent
Realm - Indomalayan
Realm - Palearctic
IUCN System - Terrestrial