Mocking cliff chat
| Mocking cliff chat | |
|---|---|
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| Female in South Africa | |
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| Male in South Africa | |
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Muscicapidae |
| Genus: | Thamnolaea |
| Species: | T. cinnamomeiventris |
| Binomial name | |
| Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris (Lafresnaye, 1836) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Myrmecocichla cinnamomeiventris | |
The mocking cliff chat (Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris) is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. It is found in Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitat is dry savannah.
The white-crowned cliff chat (T. coronata) of West Africa is sometimes included in this species.
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
External links
- Mocking cliff chat - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.