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Chat : Northern Anteater Chat

Myrmecocichla aethiops

Photo by Karan Raghwa
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

All dark brown or you can say blackish-brown, with whitish patches in primaries visible in flight (Check the 2 photo); sexes are alike
Photo taken at Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania

Habitat:

Open dry grassland, often around termite hill

Notes:

1. Generally this bird is confused with Sooty Chat
2. They excavates a nest burrow in a termite hill, ant-bear hole or warthog hole.

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