Brightly colored, terrestrial songbird found in open and arid regions across much of inland Australia.
At a glance
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Aggregated occurance data is sourced from 14 different actively-updating datasets including eBird Australia, iNaturalist Australia, BirdLife Australia, and multiple state-based bird surveys through Atlas of Living Australia.
Species notes
Overview
Male has rich bright orange head and underparts, with a dramatic throat that extends to the dark eye. In flight, the back is slightly paler than the wings. Females plainer, with faint yellowish underparts, yellowish face, and red eye.
Behavior
The orange chat is a small ground songbird with relatively long, broad, rounded wings and a short, square-ended tail. Orange chats are strongly nomadic within the arid and semi-arid zones of Australia that they inhabit. The orange chat is nomadic, but less so than the crimson chat, and moves around irregularly.
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