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ShrublandCavity nestSmall · 23 g
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The Karoo chat is 16–18 cm long and weighs around 32 gm. Its upperparts are grey, but it has a rufous patch behind the eye, and the tail is black with white outer feathers. Its underparts are white, the short straight bill, legs and feet are black and the eye is dark. The sexes are similar, but the juvenile is spotted with buff and has scaly underparts.. This species is paler than the similar grey form of the female mountain wheatear, from which it also differs in having a grey (not white) rump and completely white outer tail feathers.
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When to see the Karoo Chat
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 Karoo Chat
The map shades 3 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Karoo Chat
The Karoo chat is a small passerine bird of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. It is a common resident breeder in southwesternmost Angola, western Namibia and western South Africa. Its habitat is Karoo and desert scrub in the south, extending to the escarpment zone in the north.
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Easily confused with
Sickle-winged ChatEmarginata sinuataThe sickle-winged chat is around 15 cm (5.9 in) in length and weighs 17–20 g (0.60–0.71 oz).
Tractrac ChatEmarginata tractracThe tractrac chat is 14–15 cm long with a weight of 20 g.
Side by side: Karoo Chat vs Sickle-winged Chat
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