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Cape Rockjumper

Chaetops frenatus

Near Threatened · IUCN Red List

NTNear ThreatenedEndemicInvertebratesRockyCup nestSmall · 55 g
Cape Rockjumper (Chaetops frenatus), photo 1
Photo: i_c_riddell · CC BY 4.0
Cape Rockjumper (Chaetops frenatus), photo 2
Photo: linkie · CC BY 4.0
Cape Rockjumper (Chaetops frenatus), photo 3
Photo: linkie · CC BY 4.0
Cape Rockjumper (Chaetops frenatus), photo 4
Photo: Christiaan Viljoen · CC BY 4.0
Cape Rockjumper (Chaetops frenatus), photo 5
Photo: Christiaan Viljoen · CC BY 4.0
Cape Rockjumper (Chaetops frenatus), photo 6
Photo: Dario Taraborelli · CC0
Cape Rockjumper (Chaetops frenatus), photo 7
Photo: Dario Taraborelli · CC0
Cape Rockjumper (Chaetops frenatus), photo 8
Photo: Matthew Wridgway from South Africa · CC BY 2.0
Cape Rockjumper (Chaetops frenatus), photo 9
Photo: logan kahle · CC BY 2.0
Cape Rockjumper (Chaetops frenatus), photo 10
Photo: Christopher Webb-Smith · Public domain

ID tip

This rockjumper is 23–25 cm long with a long black tail and strong legs. The male has a dark grey and black head with a thin white supercilium and a broad white moustache (malar stripe). The back and wings are dark grey, and the underparts and rump are rufous red. The female and juvenile have a paler grey head, upperparts and wings, a duller head pattern, an orange rump, and buff underparts. The call varies from 1-4 piercing whistles to a series of trills. Adults have bright red eyes, while juveniles have black eyes until mature.

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When to see the Cape Rockjumper

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

Where to see the Cape Rockjumper

Regular range

The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

South Africa

About the Cape Rockjumper

The Cape rockjumper or rufous rockjumper is a medium-sized insectivorous passerine bird endemic to the mountain Fynbos of southernmost South Africa.

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

Easily confused with

Drakensberg Rockjumper (Chaetops aurantius) Drakensberg RockjumperChaetops aurantiusThe Drakensberg rockjumper or orange-breasted rockjumper is a medium-sized insectivorous passerine bird endemic to the alpine grasslands and rock outcrops of the Drakensberg Mountains of southeastern South Africa and Lesotho.

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