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When to see the Brown-throated Wattle-eye
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-throated Wattle-eye
The map shades 26 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 Burundi.
About the Brown-throated Wattle-eye
The brown-throated wattle-eye, also known as the common wattle-eye or scarlet-spectacled wattle-eye, is a small, insectivorous passerine bird. The wattle-eyes were previously classed as a subfamily of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae, but are now usually separated from that group.
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Easily confused with
Black-throated Wattle-eyePlatysteira peltataThe black-throated wattle-eye is a species of bird in the family Platysteiridae.
Jameson's Wattle-eyePlatysteira jamesoniJameson's wattle-eye is a species of bird in the family Platysteiridae.
Red-cheeked Wattle-eyePlatysteira blissettiThe red-cheeked wattle-eye is a species of bird in the family Platysteiridae.
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