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When to see the Brown-tailed Rock 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 Brown-tailed Rock Chat
The map shades 4 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 Uganda.
About the Brown-tailed Rock Chat
The brown-tailed rock chat is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is found in Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
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Easily confused with
Buff-breasted WheatearOenanthe bottaeResembles the larger and darker northern wheatear, but with a duller reddish breast and broader black tail tip.
Kurdish WheatearOenanthe xanthoprymnaThe Kurdish wheatear is about 14 centimetres (5.5 in) in length.
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