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Mocking Cliff Chat (Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris)

Mocking Cliff Chat
Photo: Alandmanson via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Mocking Cliff Chat

The mocking cliff chat, mocking chat or cliff chat, (Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris) is a species of chat in the family Muscicapidae which occurs in rocky habitats in much of eastern Sub-Saharan Africa. It is the only species placed in the genus Thamnolaea.

Source: Mocking cliff chat on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

A real field recording of the Mocking Cliff 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.

Song (6:18) via xeno-canto.org/648780, licensed CC BY-SA — free for commercial use.

1 recording on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe · xeno-canto lists 69 recordings for this species in total.

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