Angolan Cave Chat (Cossypha ansorgei)
About the Angolan Cave Chat
The Angola cave chat (Xenocopsychus ansorgei) is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. It is the sole member of the monotypic genus Xenocopsychus; although it was placed in Cossypha between 2010 and 2022 based on the results of a 2010 molecular phylogenetic study, this placement was found to be an error. It occurs locally from western Angola to marginally south of the Kunene River in northern Namibia. Its natural habitat is rocky places in moist to dry savanna. It was previously described as being Near threatened, but has since been downgraded to Least concern. The Angola cave chat is a small (18-19 cm) pied bird with a broad white supercilium, black upperparts and wings, and white uppertail coverts and underparts. The eye, bill, legs, and feet are all black in color.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 3 recordings for this species: 3 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.
Listed as recorded in Namibia in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Blue-shouldered Robin-ChatCossypha cyanocampterrecording
- Cape Robin-ChatCossypha caffrarecording
- Grey-winged Robin-ChatCossypha poliopterarecording
- Olive-flanked Ground RobinCossypha anomalarecording
- Red-capped Robin-ChatCossypha natalensisrecording
- Rüppell's Robin-ChatCossypha semirufarecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.