Anteater Chat

When to see the Anteater Chat

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Anteater Chat

The map shades 10 countries with regular records, and 2 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Burkina Faso, Sudan.

About the Anteater Chat

The anteater chat or northern anteater-chat is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It range extends across the Sahel and the East African montane forests. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, and subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland.

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Easily confused with

Sooty ChatMyrmecocichla nigraIt is 15 to 16 cm (6 to 6.25 inches) long, stocky and relatively short-tailed for a chat. Arnot's ChatMyrmecocichla arnottiArnot's chat ranges in size from 16 to 18 cm (6.3–7.1 in) and weighs around 35 g (1.2 oz). Rüppell's Black ChatMyrmecocichla melaenaRüppell's black chat is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae.