Brown-tailed Chat (Oenanthe scotocerca)

Other Names (World)
Brown-tailed Chat, (Brown-tailed) Rockchat, Brown-tailed Rock Chat

Family
Muscicapidae (Old World Flycatchers And Chats)

Size
13 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Heuglin, 1869)

Range (Guide)

Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (14)...)

Brown-tailed Rock Chat (Oenanthe scotocerca) [XC82645]
by Rolf A. de By from Sof Omar, Ethiopia (song)

Brown-tailed Rock Chat (Oenanthe scotocerca) [XC451545]
by id from Baringo Cliffs, Lake Baringo, Kenya (song)

Subspecies
The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

furensis (Lynes, 1926) - Eastern Chad and western Sudan.
scotocerca (Heuglin, 1869) - Red Sea hills in north-eastern Sudan and northern Eritrea.
turkana (van Someren, 1920) - Southern Ethiopia, eastern Uganda and northern and north-central Kenya.
spectatrix (Clarke, S, 1919) - Awash Valley (eastern Ethiopia) and adjacent northern Somalia.
validior (Berlioz & Roche, J, 1970) - North-eastern Somalia.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Brown-tailed Chat (Oenanthe scotocerca) - 10 files

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