Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Muscicapidae > Pinarochroa > Pinarochroa sordidaPinarochroa sordida (Moorland Chat)Synonyms: Cercomela sordida The moorland chat (Cercomela sordida), also known as the alpine chat or hill chat, is a species of songbird in the Old World flycatcher family. It is endemic to north-east Africa where it is common in its habitat. It lives at high altitudes on moors and grassland, usually above 3,400 m (11,100 ft), but can live as low as 2,100 m (6,900 ft). It has a short tail and long legs. It is bold and will approach people. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 7.668 EDGE Score: 2.15964 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 21 grams | | Birth Weight [1] | 3 grams | | Female Weight [3] | 19 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates) | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 100 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 100 % | | | Clutch Size [4] | 3 |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Aberdare Mountains |
Kenya |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Ankober: Debre Sina escarpment |
Ethiopia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Arusha National Park |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Bale Mountains National Park |
Ethiopia |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Berga floodplain |
Ethiopia |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Cherangani Hills |
Kenya |
A3 |
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Chilimo forest |
Ethiopia |
A3 |
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Choke mountains |
Ethiopia |
A1, A3 |
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Denkoro forest |
Ethiopia |
A3 |
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Entoto Natural Park and escarpment |
Ethiopia |
A3 |
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Gefersa reservoir |
Ethiopia |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Guassa (Menz) |
Ethiopia |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Hugumburda and Grat-Kahsu forests |
Ethiopia |
A3 |
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Jibat forest |
Ethiopia |
A1, A3 |
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Metu: Gore: Tepi forests |
Ethiopia |
A1, A3 |
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Mount Elgon |
Kenya |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mount Elgon National Park |
Uganda |
A2, A3 |
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Mount Kenya |
Kenya |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mount Kilimanjaro |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mugo highlands |
Ethiopia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Ngorongoro Conservation Area |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Simen Mountains National Park |
Ethiopia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Sululta plain |
Ethiopia |
A1, A3, A4i |
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| Name |
Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Eastern Afromontane |
Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe |
Yes |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605 ♦ 2Hamish 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 ♦ 3Nathan 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 ♦ 4Jetz 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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