ground for insects including butterflies, bees, wasps, locusts and ants. Prey is typically taking in a short flight. Conservation status This common species has a large range, with an estimated extent of 1,000,000 km². The population size is believed to be large, and the species is not believed to approach the thresholds for the population decline criterion of the IUCN Red List (i.e. declining more than 30% in ten years or three generations). For these reasons, the species is evaluated as Least Concern. References Ian Sinclair, Phil Hockey and Warwick Tarboton, SASOL Birds of Southern Africa (Struik 2002) Birds of Southern Africa External links Tractrac chat - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds. Xeno-canto: audio recordings of the tractrac chat tractrac chat Birds of Southern Africa tractrac chat