Mocking Cliff-Chat
Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventri
This obliging bird was observed at Kerio View near Iten, Rift Valley, Kenya. January 2012.
Ebony head, upper chest, back and tail contrast sharply with rusty orange lower belly. There's also a white patch in the wing. In older texts the bird is called simply Cliff-Chat. After a white-crowned population in West Africa was split off as a separate species the remaining population was then renamed as Mocking Cliff-Chat.
Muscicapidae -- Old World Flycatcher Family
Books Available for Sale on ABE Books:
- Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania by Zimmerman et al.
- Birds of East Africa by Stevenson and Fanshawe