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title: "Mountain Chat"
description: "Myrmecocichla monticola — Ptaki. The mountain chat or mountain wheatear (Myrmecocichla monticola) is a small insectivorous passerine bird that is endemic to southwestern Africa."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/mountain-chat
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Mountain Chat

> Myrmecocichla monticola — Ptaki. The mountain chat or mountain wheatear  (Myrmecocichla monticola) is a small insectivorous passerine bird that is endemic to southwestern Africa.

- Scientific name: *Myrmecocichla monticola*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: `mountains` (Góry)
- iNaturalist observations: 1790
- iNaturalist taxon: [980202](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/980202)

## Names

- en: Mountain Chat
- de: Bergsteinschmätzer
- es: Zorzal Hormiguero Montano
- fr: Traquet montagnard

## Countries with the most observations

ZA (860), NA (814), LS (16), AO (13)

## Summary

The mountain chat or mountain wheatear  (Myrmecocichla monticola) is a small insectivorous passerine bird that is endemic to southwestern Africa.

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

## Photo

![Mountain Chat](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/mountain-chat/medium.jpg)

Photo: bdhimes · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/267217908

## Machine access

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