Cape Robin-Chat
Photo: Alan Manson · CC BY-SA 2.0

Chats, Old World Flycatchers, and Allies

Cape Robin-Chat

Dessonornis caffer

LCLeast Concern
Family
Chats, Old World Flycatchers, and Allies (Muscicapidae)
Order
Passeriformes

Overview

The Cape robin-chat (Dessonornis caffer) is a small passerine bird of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. It has a disjunct range from South Sudan to South Africa.
The locally familiar and confiding species has colonized and benefited from a range of man-altered habitats, including city suburbs and farmstead woodlots. It is an accomplished songster like other robin-chats, but is rather less colourful than most, and frequents either drier settings or higher altitudes.

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Sources and further reading

Last updated September 29, 2026.