Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Muscicapidae > Emarginata > Emarginata schlegeliiEmarginata schlegelii (Karoo Chat)Synonyms: Cercomela schlegelii; Erithacus schlegelii The Karoo chat (Cercomela schlegelii) is a small passerine bird of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. It is a common resident breeder in southwesternmost Angola, western Namibia and western South Africa. Its habitat is Karoo and desert scrub in the south, extending to the escarpment zone in the north. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 6.92314 EDGE Score: 2.06979 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 23 grams | | Birth Weight [2] | 2.2 grams | | Female Weight [4] | 22 grams |  | | Diet [3] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore | | Diet - Invertibrates [3] | 60 % | | Diet - Seeds [3] | 40 % | | Forages - Understory [3] | 40 % | | Forages - Ground [3] | 60 % | | | Clutch Size [5] | 3 |
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| Name |
Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
Use |
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Nama Karoo |
Namibia, South Africa |
Afrotropic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Namibian savanna woodlands |
Angola, Namibia |
Afrotropic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Succulent Karoo |
Namibia, South Africa |
Afrotropic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Anysberg Nature Reserve |
South Africa |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Augrabies Falls National Park |
South Africa |
A3 |
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Bitterputs Conservation Area (proposed) |
South Africa |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Cedarberg: Koue Bokkeveld complex |
South Africa |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Haramoep and Black Mountain Mine Nature Reserve |
South Africa |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Iona National Park |
Angola |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Karoo National Park |
South Africa |
A1, A3, A4ii |
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Karoo Nature Reserve |
South Africa |
A1, A3, A4ii |
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Mattheus-Gat Conservation Area (proposed) |
South Africa |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Namib-Naukluft Park |
Namibia |
A1, A2, A3, A4i |
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Olifants river estuary |
South Africa |
A3, A4i |
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Outeniqua mountains |
South Africa |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Platberg-Karoo Conservancy |
South Africa |
A1, A3, A4i, A4ii |
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Southern Langeberg mountains |
South Africa |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Sperrgebiet |
Namibia |
A1, A2, A3, A4i |
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Swartberg mountains |
South Africa |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Verlorenvlei |
South Africa |
A4i |
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| Name |
Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Succulent Karoo |
Namibia, South Africa |
No |
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 Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Dean, WRJ 2000. The Birds of Angola: An Annotated Checklist. BOU Checklist No. 18. Tring, UK: British Ornithologists' Union ♦ 2Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605 ♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 4Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 5Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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