The Sooty Chat is a chat whose male has black plumage and a white wing patch. Females and juveniles are brown, and the species forages on the ground in grassland.
Males are black with a white wing patch that can be hidden when perched. Females and juveniles are sooty brown.
It forages on the ground for seeds and berries and also eats termites, ants, grasshoppers, and other insects.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.