Layard’s Warbler

Uncommon endemic resident. Told from [Chestnut-vented Warbler (Tit-Babbler)] by white undertail coverts; otherwise distinguished by pale yellow eye and spotted throat. immature has brownish upper parts; throat less clearly spotted. Utters several clear song phrases, each interspersed with rattling notes, ‘chiroo-chirroo-chirroo, trrrrr, chirree-chirree-chirree, trrrrr…’. Creeps about actively within dense cover, then darts to the next bush in quick, jerky flight. Occurs in fynbos and in both desert and mountain scrub throughout the more arid western regions, as well as in the Lesotho highlands.