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What the Mocking Cliff Chat sounds like
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The mocking cliff chat is a large chat with distinctive colouration. The male has a glossy black with a chestnut belly, vent, and rump and white shoulder patches. The shoulder patches vary in size geographically. The female is dark grey with a chestnut lower breast, belly, and vent. The mocking cliff chat has a length of 19–21 cm and weigh 41–51g. Voice: A loud fluty melodious warbling song which often contains many rapid-fire phrases mimicking other species, with some harsher phrases interspersed.
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When to see the Mocking Cliff Chat
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 Mocking Cliff Chat
The map shades 22 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 Mauritania.
About the Mocking Cliff Chat
The mocking cliff chat, mocking chat or cliff chat, is a species of chat in the family Muscicapidae which occurs in rocky habitats in much of eastern Sub-Saharan Africa. It is the only species placed in the genus Thamnolaea.
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Easily confused with
Rufous-tailed Scrub RobinCercotrichas galactotesAdult male and female rufous-tailed scrub robin look alike and measure about 6 inches (150 mm) long with relatively long legs and a large rounded tail.
Blue-fronted RedstartPhoenicurus frontalisThe blue-fronted redstart is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae, the Old World flycatchers.
Ashy FlycatcherFraseria caerulescensThe ashy flycatcher is 13–15 cm (5.1–5.9 in) long.
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