Mocking Cliff Chat

Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris

IUCN: Least Concern

Taxonomy

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Muscicapidae
Genus
Thamnolaea
eBird Code
moccha1

Subspecies (9)

  • Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris albiscapulata

    southern Ethiopia

  • Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris autochthones

    northeastern South Africa (southward to northern KwaZulu-Natal), Eswatini, and southern Mozambique

  • Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris bambarae

    southern Mauritania, eastern Senegal, and southwestern Mali

  • Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris cavernicola

    central Mali

  • Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris cinnamomeiventris

    central South Africa

  • Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris coronata

    Togo and southeastern Burkina Faso to northern Cameroon and western Sudan (Darfur)

  • Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris kordofanensis

    central Sudan (Kordofan and Nuba Hills)

  • Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris odica

    eastern Zimbabwe

  • Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris subrufipennis

    southeastern South Sudan and southwestern Ethiopia southward to Zambia and Malawi

Data Sources

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.