Mocking Cliff Chat

Mocking Cliff Chat
Mocking Cliff Chat
A female at Pilanesberg, South Africa
Male in South Africa
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Muscicapidae
Genus: Myrmecocichla
Species: M. cinnamomeiventris
Binomial name
Myrmecocichla cinnamomeiventris
(Lafresnaye, 1836)
Synonyms

Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris

The Mocking Cliff Chat (Myrmecocichla cinnamomeiventris) is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. It is found in Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitat is dry savanna.

The White-crowned Cliff Chat (M. coronata) of West Africa is often included in this species.

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