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title: "Cape Robin-Chat"
description: "Dessonornis caffer — Ptaki. The Cape robin-chat (Dessonornis caffer) is a small passerine bird of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/cape-robin-chat
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Cape Robin-Chat

> Dessonornis caffer — Ptaki. The Cape robin-chat (Dessonornis caffer) is a small passerine bird of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.

- Scientific name: *Dessonornis caffer*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: `urban` (Miasta i ogrody), `farm` (Gospodarstwo), `savanna` (Sawanna)
- iNaturalist observations: 7214
- Wikidata: [Q28837056](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28837056)
- iNaturalist taxon: [1585912](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1585912)

## Names

- en: Cape Robin-Chat
- de: Kaprötel
- es: Cosifa cafre
- fr: Cossyphe du Cap

## Countries with the most observations

ZA (6410), KE (230), TZ (149), MW (46), RW (24), ZW (19), LS (15), SZ (9), UG (4)

## Summary

The Cape robin-chat (Dessonornis caffer) is a small passerine bird of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. It has a disjunct range from South Sudan to South Africa.
The locally familiar and confiding species has colonized and benefited from a range of man-altered habitats, including city suburbs and farmstead woodlots. It is an accomplished songster like other robin-chats, but is rather less colourful than most, and frequents either drier settings or higher altitudes. It forages in the proximity of cover, in the open or in fairly well-lit environments. Its distribution resembles that of the karoo–olive complex…

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

## Photo

![Cape Robin-Chat](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/cape-robin-chat/medium.jpg)

Photo: Dario Taraborelli · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/262853596

## Machine access

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