White-browed Robin-Chat

White-browed Robin-Chat is a thrush-sized Turdid, with the look of a redstart. The adult is hooded black, with a very distinct white eyebrow from the beak to the nape. What stands out at first sight is the bright orange hue of all the underparts. An orange collar separates the nape from the mantle. The orange colour also reaches the rump, back, uppertail coverts and exterior rectrices, but the latter is largely masked by the wings on the perched bird. The mantle is of an olive-brown colour. The wings and central rectrices are brown with a hint of grey. The iris is dark brown. The fairly strong beak is black and the legs are pinkish to brownish. The subspecies subrufescens is distinguished from the nominate by its black central rectrices. The juvenile has a plumage less defined with less clear colours. Some of the feathers have a slightly scaly look. The head is brown with an almost invisible eyebrow.
White-browed Robin-Chat can be mistaken for Rüppell's Robin-Chat to the north of its range, but the latter is smaller, with wings and central rectrices darker, and it has no complete red collar. It can also look like Blue-winged Robin-Chat to the west, with the adults showing a distinct blue colour on the small closed wing feathers, and whose song includes many imitations of other birds.