Sooty Chat
Myrmecocichla nigra(Vieillot, LJP, 1818)
English (US) Sooty Chat
The Sooty Chat (Myrmecocichla nigra) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Muscicapidae (Chats, Old World Flycatchers, and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: patchily distributed from southeastern Nigeria to southern Angola and southern Zambia, eastward to southern South Sudan, southwestern Kenya, and eastern TanzaniaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Myrmecocichla nigra
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Sooty Chat
- Described by
- (Vieillot, LJP, 1818)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Oenanthe nigra
- Described by
- (Vieillot, LJP, 1818)
- Type locality
- west coast of Africa [= Malymbe, i.e. Malimba, Portuguese Congo, vide Sclater, 1930, Syst. Av. Aethiop., p. 466].
- Original description
- Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine, etc. Nouvelle édition 21 p.431
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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