Grey-winged Robin-Chat (Cossypha polioptera)
About the Grey-winged Robin-Chat
The grey-winged robin-chat or grey-winged akalat (Sheppardia polioptera) is a bird in the family Muscicapidae. The species was first described by Anton Reichenow in 1892. It is found in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
A real field recording of the Grey-winged Robin-Chat. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.
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Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.
1 recording on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia · xeno-canto lists 19 recordings for this species in total.
Similar species
- Angolan Cave ChatCossypha ansorgeiprofile
- Archer's Ground RobinCossypha archeriprofile
- Blue-shouldered Robin-ChatCossypha cyanocampterrecording
- Cape Robin-ChatCossypha caffrarecording
- Chorister Robin-ChatCossypha dichroaprofile
- Mountain Robin-ChatCossypha isabellaeprofile
Species grouped by shared genus, family and range.