Sombre Rock Chat
Oenanthe dubia(Blundell, HJW; Lovat, 1899)
English (US) Sombre Rock Chat
The Sombre Rock Chat (Oenanthe dubia) 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: montane rocky desert of central and northeastern Ethiopia and Djibouti; one old record northwestern SomaliaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Oenanthe dubia
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Data Deficient
- English (US)
- Sombre Rock Chat
- Described by
- (Blundell, HJW; Lovat, 1899)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Myrmecocichla dubia
- Described by
- (Blundell, HJW; Lovat, 1899)
- Type locality
- Fontaly, Abyssinia.
- Original description
- Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 10 p.22
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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