Red-capped Robin-Chat
Cossypha natalensis Smith, A, 1840
Muscicapidae — Chats, Old World Flycatchers
Red-capped Robin-Chat, Cossypha natalensis, is a passerine of the family Muscicapidae that breeds in central, eastern and southern Africa. It was first described by Smith, A, 1840. The bird is associated with the undergrowth of evergreen forest, including coastal, riverine, sand and highland forest below cloud forest level, and it also uses well-vegetated gullies and thickets in drier country. In KwaZulu-Natal it is a familiar garden bird in shrubberies. It is a relatively large robin-chat, and the adults show an orange-rufous head, face, breast and belly, with dusky upperparts and wings and a dark eye.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Muscicapidae — Chats, Old World Flycatchers
- Breeding range
- Africa: c, e, s
