Familiar Chat

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Muscicapidae

Genus

Oenanthe

eBird Code

famcha1

Subspecies (7)

• Oenanthe familiaris actuosa

  Lesotho and southeastern South Africa (Eastern Cape to western KwaZulu-Natal)

• Oenanthe familiaris angolensis

  western Angola to northern Namibia

• Oenanthe familiaris falkensteini

  Senegal eastward to northwestern Ethiopia, southern Uganda, and Tanzania southward to northern Botswana, northern Zimbabwe and northern Mozambique

• Oenanthe familiaris familiaris

  southwestern South Africa

• Oenanthe familiaris galtoni

  eastern Namibia to western Botswana and northwestern South Africa

• Oenanthe familiaris hellmayri

  southeastern Botswana, Zimbabwe, and east-central South Africa (south to Free State)

• Oenanthe familiaris omoensis

  southeastern South Sudan, southwestern Ethiopia, northeastern Uganda, and northwestern Kenya