Mocking Cliff Chat
A species of Cliff Chats Scientific name : Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris Genus : Cliff Chats
Mocking Cliff Chat, A species of Cliff Chats
Botanical name: Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris
Genus: Cliff Chats
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Description General Info
Description
The mocking cliff chat is a large chat with distinctive colouration. The male has a glossy black with a chestnut belly, vent, and rump and white shoulder patches. The shoulder patches vary in size geographically. The female is dark grey with a chestnut lower breast, belly, and vent. The mocking cliff chat has a length of 19–21 cm and weigh 41–51g. 
Size
21 cm
Feeding Habits
Mocking Cliff Chat primarily consumes figs, particularly from the Ficus ingens tree, insects such as flying ants, spiders, and even aloe nectar. Mocking Cliff Chat forages in trees and on the ground, often using a tree as a perch to swoop down on prey and is also known to scour among rocks and tussocks near water sources.
Habitat
Mocking Cliff Chat typically inhabits rugged terrains featuring a mixture of trees and rocks. Preferred environments include wooded cliffs, kopjes, inselbergs, and gorges within woodland or savanna areas, with a particular affinity for regions with fig trees. While generally found amid vegetation, in some locales like Eritrea, mocking Cliff Chat can be found in rocky areas lacking woody plants. Mocking Cliff Chat adapts to anthropogenic structures, frequenting houses, erosion gulleys, and road infrastructure and is known to become approachable near campsites. Mocking Cliff Chat resides at altitudes ranging broadly from 600 to 2440 meters, typically inhabiting highlands and plateaux with more significant rainfall and avoiding drier rocky landscapes.
Dite type
Insectivorous
General Info
Distribution Area
The mocking cliff chat occurs in a neat band from central Ethiopia in the north through east Africa into Zimbabwe, south-eastern Botswana, southern Mozambique and eastern South Africa as far as the far east of Western Cape province. Mostly resident but in the south of its range tends to move to lower altitudes in the winter months.
Species Status
Not globally threatened.
Scientific Classification
Phylum
Chordates Class
Birds Order
Perching birds Family
Old world flycatchers Genus
Cliff Chats Species
Mocking Cliff Chat 
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