Mocking Cliff Chat
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Mocking Cliff Chat
| Mocking Cliff Chat | |
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| A female at Pilanesberg, South Africa | |
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| Male in South Africa | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Muscicapidae |
| Genus: | Myrmecocichla |
| Species: | M. cinnamomeiventris |
| Binomial name | |
| Myrmecocichla cinnamomeiventris (Lafresnaye, 1836) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris |
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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.
References
- BirdLife International 2004. Myrmecocichla cinnamomeiventris. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 26 July 2007.
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