Fiscal Flycatcher

Common endemic resident. Differs from [Southern (Common) Fiscal] in less robust bill and prominent white ‘windows’ in the tail; the white wing-bar extends only halfway along the folded wing, not to the shoulder. Female’s plumage is duller grey-brown (not black, as in male). Has a sibilant, rather weak song ‘swee-swee-ur’ and other similar sounds, often in prolonged sequence. Usually occurs in pairs in bush country, grassy Karoo, fynbos and suburbia. Perches prominently on a branch or post and flies to the ground to seize insects.