Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat

What the Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat sounds like

Recorded by paulo kivuyo · Call, subsong · Minziro, Bukoba Rural, Kagera Region, Tanzania · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by paulo kivuyo · Call, subsong · Minziro, Bukoba Rural, Kagera Region, Tanzania · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat

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

Where to see the Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat

The map shades 10 countries with regular records, and 1 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 Congo - Brazzaville.

About the Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat

The blue-shouldered robin-chat is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is widespread across the African tropical rainforest. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

White-crowned Robin-ChatCossypha albicapillusThe white-crowned robin-chat is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. White-headed Robin-ChatCossypha heinrichiThe white-headed robin-chat is 22–23 cm (8.7–9.1 in) long and weighs 56–69 g (2.0–2.4 oz). Rüppell's Robin-ChatCossypha semirufaIt is a smaller version of the White-browed robin-chat, measuring 18 cm rather than 20 cm, with darker, blackish central tail feathers, and in some races a more constricted supercilium behind the eye.