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title: "Mocking Cliff-Chat"
description: "Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris — Vogels. The mocking cliff chat, mocking chat or cliff chat, (Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris) is a species of chat in the family Muscicapidae which occurs in rocky habitats in much of eastern Sub-Saharan Africa."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/mocking-cliff-chat
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Mocking Cliff-Chat

> Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris — Vogels. The mocking cliff chat, mocking chat or cliff chat, (Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris) is a species of chat in the family Muscicapidae which occurs in rocky habitats in much of eastern Sub-Saharan Africa.

- Scientific name: *Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 1693
- Wikidata: [Q1589235](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1589235)
- iNaturalist taxon: [144298](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/144298)

## Names

- en: Mocking Cliff-Chat
- de: Rotbauchschmätzer
- es: Roquero Imitador
- fr: Traquet à ventre roux
- pt: Chasco-poliglota
- pl: Smolarek rdzawobrzuchy

## Countries with the most observations

ZA (1231), ET (129), KE (66), ZW (49), TZ (40), NG (18), GH (16), MW (15), SZ (13), MZ (7), UG (6), ER (5)

## Summary

The mocking cliff chat, mocking chat or cliff chat, (Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris) is a species of chat in the family Muscicapidae which occurs in rocky habitats in much of eastern Sub-Saharan Africa. It is the only species placed in the genus Thamnolaea.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mocking_cliff_chat

## Photo

![Mocking Cliff-Chat](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/mocking-cliff-chat/medium.jpg)

Photo: Andrew Deacon · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/309148398

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/mocking-cliff-chat?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).