Thursday, October 9, 2025

White-Browed Scrub Robin

I was with my birding guide, William, walking along a dirt trail on the hill between the Nkima Forest Lodge and the Mabamba Swamp southwest of Entebbe, Uganda, when William stopped below a tree and told me to watch the bird standing at the top, a white-browed scrub robin. He then went to his phone and played some sort of call of the white-browed scrub robin and as he did so, the birds tail immediately fanned out in to a beautiful array with an orange base, brown segment and then white tips. It then kept it that way for quite awhile. It was an amazing and immediate response from the bird. 
White-browed scrub robin. 







Illustration from Birds of the World. 
There are five species of scrub robin. They've been treated as part of the thrush family in the past and are now considered part of the Old World flycatcher family. 
Range from Birds of the World.

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