White-crowned Cliff-Chat (Thamnolaea coronata)

Other Scientific Names
Thamnolaea coronata [Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)]

Family
Muscicapidae (Old World Flycatchers And Chats)

Size
21 cm

First Described (Guide)
Reichenow, 1902

Range (Guide)

Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Cote dIvoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sudan, Togo.

Northern Ivory Coast and eastern Burkina Faso east, discontinuously, to western Sudan.

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 (2011).

Status NR
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (3)...)

White-crowned Cliff Chat (Thamnolaea coronata) [XC719528]
by Phil Gregory from Shai Hills Resource Reserve, Ghana (call)

White-crowned Cliff Chat (Thamnolaea coronata) [XC719526]
by Peter Boesman from Shai Hills Resource Reserve, Ghana (call)

Subspecies
Mocking Cliff-Chat (Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris) and White-crowned Cliff-Chat (Thamnolaea coronata) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) have been lumped as cinnamomeiventris and moved from genus Thamnolaea to the genus Myrmecocichla following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993).

Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Mocking Cliff-Chat (Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris).

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

cavernicola Bates, 1933 - Central Mali (Mopti). Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Mocking Cliff-Chat (Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris).
bambarae Bates, 1928 - Southern Mauritania, eastern Senegal and south-western Mali. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Mocking Cliff-Chat (Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris).
coronata Reichenow, 1902 - West-central. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Mocking Cliff-Chat (Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for White-crowned Cliff-Chat (Thamnolaea coronata) - 10 files

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