Brown Rock Chat

Description:

The Brown Rock Chat is larger than the somewhat similar looking Indian Robin. It is uniformly rufous brown with the wings and tail of a slightly darker shade. The brown on the undersides grades into a dark grey-brown vent. The sexes are indistinguishable in the field. When feeding on the ground it sometimes flicks open its wings and tail. It also has a habit of slowly raising its tail slightly, fanning it and bobbing its head.

Habitat:

Seen on a hill in open forest.

Notes:

They have a wide repertoire of calls. Nearly eight different kinds of calls have been noted. The song is thrush like with a number of notes, often including imitations of the songs of other bird species including the Yellow-eyed Babbler, Smaller Grey Cuckoo-Shrike and Tickell's Blue Flycatcher.