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| brown rock chat |
Brown Rock Chat
The Brown Rock Chat is a minor sized passerine and both
the sexes of this specie appear similar in the field around the world specially
in Pakistan and India. Size of Brown rock chat is between 16 cm to 18 cm. They have plain grey or brown upper parts and paler under
parts. The brown on the undersides grades into a dark grey-brown vent.
Plain chocolate-brown chat, often seen standing tall and
proud on ridges, cliff edges, and buildings. Female Indian Robin can be slightly
similar; note Brown Rock Chat’s proportionally shorter tail and lack of a Rufus
vent. Lovely song is composed of warbles and trills. Eight different kinds of
calls have been noted and these include territorial calls, begging call,
feeding call, alarm call, threat call, contact call, distress call, roosting and
emergence calls. Most common call is a slightly descending “chee.”
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This beautifully bird (Oenanthe fusca) or Indian chat is
a species of the family Muscicapidae. It is found mainly in northern and
central India and the maximum upper area of Pakistan like Punjab and kpk. It
occurs in 5 or 6 different cities. 4 of these being Islamabad, Chakwal, Lahore
and Faisalabad. It is often found in June to September on old buildings and
rocky areas. It resembles a female Indian robin but lacks the reddish vent and
differs in posture and behavior apart from being larger. In flight it bears
some resemblance to thrushes and redstarts. It feeds on insects, captured
mainly on the earth. It was formerly placed as the sole species in the genus
Cercomela but is now included with the wheatears in the genus Oenanthe. The
breeding season is between Februarys to July. Nest is cup shaped, and
constructed by grass, hair and clods placed in a ledge in a roadside cutting,
wall or window even making use of occupied houses. Eggs 3 to 4, pale blue with
rusty & spots and incubated by the female alone. The young leave the
nest after about 15 days after hatching.
