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Field Notes

Habitat:

Grassland

Notes:

Terrible photo, but hopefully someone can help with ID. Could it be a cape robin chat?

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (3)

If this link is really of an African stonechat, then I agree with Ashley. It is the only picture of a stonechat I could find with the white ring going up to the bottom of the beak. https://www.pixoto.com/images-photography/animals/birds/african-stone-chat-5998654112399360
Hi Staccy. This is a real poser. I would say it is a Reunion Stonechat, Saxicola tectes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9union_stonechat except that species is endemic to Reunion. It is the only chat I've found where the neck ring ascends to the bottom of the beak. All the others have a definite black throat and/or significant white stripes around the eye. This looks like it may be an immature bird, as suggested by Ashley, but I don't know if the neck ring would change that much between an immature African Stonechat and the adult. I'm going to keep looking.
Immature or female African stonechat?

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