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Cape robin-chat
Species of bird / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Cape robin-chat (Dessonornis caffer) is a small passerine bird of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. It has a disjunct range from South Sudan to South Africa.[3]
Cape robin-chat | |
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In Pietermaritzburg, South Africa | |
Singing at dawn before sunrise | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Muscicapidae |
Genus: | Dessonornis |
Species: | D. caffer |
Binomial name | |
Dessonornis caffer (Linnaeus, 1771) | |
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The locally familiar and confiding species[6] has colonized and benefited from a range of man-altered habitats, including city suburbs and farmstead woodlots.[7] It is an accomplished songster like other robin-chats, but is rather less colourful than most, and frequents either drier settings or higher altitudes. It forages in the proximity of cover, in the open or in fairly well-lit environments. Its distribution resembles that of the karooāolive complex of thrushes, but it prefers the bracken-briar fringes of Afromontane forest,[7] and does not enter far into forest proper.[8] It is altitudinally segregated from the red-capped robin-chat,[8] and is less of a skulker.