Cape Penduline Tit

Common near-endemic resident. Distinguished by very small size, black forehead and yellow underparts; immature similar. Some western birds are greyer above than illustrated. Utters a sibilant ‘swee-swee-swee-swee, tree-tree-tree’. Usually in groups of two to eight in dry Acacia woodland, thickets and fynbos. Feeds in the outer canopies of trees, flitting one after the other from tree to tree, constantly on the move. Most common in dry regions, but easily overlooked owing to tiny size and inconspicuous calls.