Alternative names: Rufous Bush-Robin; Rufous Bush-Chat
- Cercotrichas galactotes
Includes: African Scrub-Robin
Identification
Brown upper parts, white under parts, and a prominent white eye-stripe. The long rufous tail is frequently fanned, showing the black and white tips of the tail feathers.
Distribution
Found in the Mediterranean, North Africa, West and Central Africa, Middle East to Iran and Pakistan.
Taxonomy
Clements splits the two subspecies minor and hamertoni from subsaharan Africa as African Scrub-Robin Cercotrichas minor.
Placed in genus Erythropygia by Gill and Donsker.
Habitat
Dry open country with bushes and shrubs.
Behaviour
Breeding
It builds its nest in a bush; 3-5 eggs are laid.
Diet
The diet incldudes insects mostly caught on the ground.
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