Species Information

                                                                           

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596.  African Stonechat
(Stonechat )   (Saxicola torquatus torquatus)
Siswati: indayi  
Common resident in the highveld, middleveld and Lubombos and winter migrant in the lowveld.

Malolotja Mantenga Mlawula

Malolotja Information:
Widespread resident of grasslands and marshes.
Highveld grassland
Vleis, dams and rivers
Rocky hillsides with scattered trees

Malolotja information from the Bird Checklist for Malolotja (printed in the late 1980's, sponsored by the Natural History Society of Eswatini), supplemented with information from Roberts' Birds of Southern Africa, 1985.

Checklist, comments and distribution information from the Eswatini Bird Atlas by Vincent Parker, digital data provided by the Avian Demography Unit, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town (http://www.aviandemographyunit.org). SiSwati names from SNTC and Big Game Parks.