White-fronted Black-chat (Oenanthe albifrons)

Other Scientific Names
Pentholaea albifrons

Other Names (World)
White-fronted Black-Chat, White-fronted Chat, White-forehead Chat, White-fronted Black Chat

Family
Muscicapidae (Old World Flycatchers And Chats)

Size
15 cm

First Described (Guide)
(R�ppell, 1837)

Range (Guide)

Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo, Uganda.

Vagrant to Mauritania.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (2)...)

White-fronted Black Chat (Oenanthe albifrons) [XC702991]
by id from Killy, Foni Bintang Karenal, Gambia (song)

White-fronted Black Chat (Oenanthe albifrons) [XC405336]
by Joost van Bruggen from Dindefelo-Segou, K\u00e9dougou, Senegal (song)

Subspecies
Often treated in genus Myrmecocichla. On basis of female plumage, nominate subspecies and pachyrhyncha form one group, and the three other subspecies another.

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

frontalis (Swainson, 1837) - Senegal and Gambia east to northern Cameroon.
limbata (Reichenow, 1921) - Eastern Cameroon east to Central African Republic.
clericalis (Cabanis, 1882) - Southern Sudan, northern DRCongo and Uganda.
albifrons (R�ppell, 1837) - Eritrea and northern Ethiopia.
pachyrhyncha (Neumann, 1906) - South-western Ethiopia.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for White-fronted Black-chat (Oenanthe albifrons) - 10 files

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