Familiar Chat (Oenanthe familiaris) [XC857100]
by Tony Archer from Larabanga, West Gonja, Northern Region, Ghana (call)
Familiar Chat (Oenanthe familiaris) [XC596248]
by Rick Nuttall from Karoo Gariep Nature Reserve, Hanover, Northern Cape, South Africa (song)
Subspecies
The following 8 subspecies are recognised:
falkensteini (Cabanis, 1875) - South-eastern Senegal east to north-western Ethiopia, and southern Uganda and Tanzania south to Zambezi Valley.
omoensis (Neumann, 1904) - South-eastern Sudan, south-western Ethiopia, north-eastern Uganda and north-western Kenya.
angolensis (Lynes, 1926) - South-western DR Congo, western Angola and northern Namibia.
galtoni (Strickland, 1853) - Eastern Namibia, western Botswana and northern South Africa (northern and western northern Cape).
hellmayri (Reichenow, 1902) - South-eastern Botswana east to southern Mozambique, and eastern South Africa (Northern Province and northern eastern Cape).
actuosa (Clancey, 1966) - Eastern South Africa (western KwaZulu-Natal south to Drakensberg Mts) and Lesotho.
familiaris (Wilkes, 1817) - Southern South Africa (Western Cape and eastern Cape east to R Great Kei).
modesta Shelley, 1897 - North-eastern Angola to Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet