white-winged cliff chat

{{Short description|Species of bird}}

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| name = White-winged cliff chat

| image = Myrmecocichla semirufa -Ethiopia-8.jpg

| image_caption = Two males in Ethiopia

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=Monticola semirufus |volume=2016 |page=e.T22710457A94246950 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22710457A94246950.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}

| genus = Monticola

| species = semirufus

| authority = (Rüppell, 1837)

| synonyms = *Myrmecocichla semirufa

• Thamnolaea semirufa

}}

The white-winged cliff chat (Monticola semirufus) is a species of passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. It is found in rocky wooded gorges, among boulders and in road cuttings within the Ethiopian Highlands.

This species was formerly placed in the genus Thamnolaea but was moved to Monticola based on the results of a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2010.{{cite journal | last1=Zuccon | first1=D. | last2=Ericson | first2=Per G.P. | year=2010 | title=The Monticola rock-thrushes: phylogeny and biogeography revisited | journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume=55 | issue=3 | pages=901–910 | doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2010.01.009 | pmid=20079862}}{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | title=Chats, Old World flycatchers | work=World Bird List Version 6.2 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/chats/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union| access-date=20 May 2016 }}

Image:white-winged-cliff-chat2.jpg, Ethiopia]]

Length 19–21 cm. The male has a striking chestnut belly which the female lacks. Juvenile is spotted buff above and below. Both sexes show striking white secondaries in flight. The white patches in the primaries are diagnostic of this species.