Yellow-breasted Forest Robin

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When to see the Yellow-breasted Forest Robin

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

Where to see the Yellow-breasted Forest Robin

The map shades 15 countries with regular records, and 2 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 Kenya, Rwanda.

About the Yellow-breasted Forest Robin

The orange-breasted forest robin is a species of bird mainly found throughout the African tropical rainforest. It has a total length of around 12 cm, has dark upperparts, and a throat and chest that, depending on the subspecies, is yellow-orange or deep orange.

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Easily confused with

Olive-backed Forest RobinStiphrornis pyrrholaemusThe olive-backed forest robin is a species of passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae that is found in the Gamba Complex within southwest Gabon. Orange-breasted Forest RobinStiphrornis erythrothoraxIt has a total length of around 12 cm (4+3⁄4 in), has dark upperparts, and a throat and chest that, depending on the exact subspecies, is yellow-orange or deep orange.