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Terrible photo, but hopefully someone can help with ID. Could it be a cape robin chat?
Spotted on Jan 4, 2015
Submitted on Jan 4, 2015
3 Comments
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-photograph...
Hi Staccy. This is a real poser. I would say it is a Reunion Stonechat, Saxicola tectes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9uni... 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?