Chat Flycatcher (Agricola infuscatus) | Photos and ID

LCLeast ConcernInvertebrates

GrasslandCup nestSmall · 32 g

Chat Flycatcher (Agricola infuscatus), photo 2 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

Chat Flycatcher (Agricola infuscatus), photo 3 — Photo: (c) Justin Ponder, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Chat Flycatcher (Agricola infuscatus), photo 4 — Photo: (c) Tuoichen, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Chat Flycatcher (Agricola infuscatus), photo 5 — Photo: (c) Eric Knight, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Chat Flycatcher (Agricola infuscatus), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Timothy Whitehead, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Chat Flycatcher (Agricola infuscatus), photo 7 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

Chat Flycatcher (Agricola infuscatus), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Martin Gutewort, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Chat Flycatcher (Agricola infuscatus), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Timothy Whitehead, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Chat Flycatcher (Agricola infuscatus), photo 10 — Photo: (c) amantedarmanin, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

ID tip

The chat flycatcher is an earthy light reddish-brown in colour and has large, pale wing edges. Juvenile flycatchers have speckled feathers. The flycatcher produces a song that consists of a "cher cher chirrup" sound. The bird is about twenty centimeters long.

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When to see the Chat Flycatcher

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

Where to see the Chat Flycatcher

Regular range

The map shades 4 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

South Africa Namibia Botswana Angola

About the Chat Flycatcher

The chat flycatcher is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae that is native to southern Africa.

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Easily confused with

Pale FlycatcherAgricola pallidusThe pale flycatcher is a passerine bird of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae, native to Sub-Saharan Africa.

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