Black-throated Wattle-eye
Platysteira peltata
Riverine and coastal thickets. Female all black breast, male has narrow black breast band on white under feathers. Red eye-wattle.
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Not Endemic
Description
Uncommon resident. Female has all-black breast, male has narrow breast-band only; both have red eye-wattles. Immature male lacks breast-band. Has a guttural ‘chak-chak’ call, a weak, tinkling song ‘er-er-fea-er-er-fee-fea’ and a louder ‘tree-tree-tree, che-chreet-che-chreet-che-chreet…’. Pairs live in the lower stratum of riverine and coastal thickets.
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Names
A: Beloogbosbontrokkie
Z: umashiyabomvu
G: Schwarzkehl-Lappenschnäpper
Bird Family
Small leaf-gleaning flycatchers of similar appearance, characterised by grey caps and upperparts, black masks, black or rufous breast-bands and varying amounts of rufous coloration elsewhere. Immatures are dull versions of the adults. They are often found in bird parties. When alarmed they fly about with whirring wings.
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