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The Herero chat has a length of 17 cm (6.7 in). The adults have a blackish mask, similar to that of a shrike with a wide white supercilium and a white throat. The upperparts are brown, warmer more red in colour on the rump and tail, although the central feathers of the tail are blackish-brown. The underparts are whitish, sometimes washed brown with faint dark streaks.
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When to see the Herero Chat
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is September, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Herero Chat
The map shades 1 country 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 Angola.
About the Herero Chat
The Herero chat is a species of passerine bird belonging to the family Muscicapidae, the chats and Old World flycatchers. It is the only species in the monospecific genus Namibornis and it has a restricted range in southwestern Africa.
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Easily confused with
Chinese Vivid NiltavaNiltava oatesiThe Chinese vivid niltava is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae.
Rusty-bellied ShortwingBrachypteryx hyperythraThe rusty-bellied shortwing is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae.
Kurdish WheatearOenanthe xanthoprymnaThe Kurdish wheatear is about 14 centimetres (5.5 in) in length.
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