English: Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush, Rock Thrush, Spotted Rock Thrush
Russian: Пёстрый каменный дрозд
German: Steinrotel
French: Monticole de roche
Mongolian: Хадны жижир, Цохионы хөөндэй
Japanese: コシジロイソヒョ (Koshijiro-Isohiyo)

Body length: 17-20 cm
Wing span: 32-37 cm

Passage migrant / winter visitor
Breeding season: May-August

Egg number: 4-5
Egg colour: Glossy pale blue reddish-brown specks at larger end.
Brood:  1-2 per year

Global status: Least concern
Regional status: Least concern

Food: Arthropods and their larvae such as beetles, grasshoppers.

Habitat: Nests on the ground underneath rocks, rock crevices, rocky ground, ruins, shallow cavities covered by grasses on dry, rocky mountains, slopes with sparse vegetation and high rock cliffs in high mountains, forest steppe, mountain steppe, desert steppe and river valleys in the main ranges.