Rockrunner

Common, localised near-endemic resident. Differs from other grass-warblers within its limited distribution in heavily streaked head and mantle, bold facial markings, rufous belly and habit of keeping its tail raised high. Song is a warbling ‘tip-tip-tootle-titootle-tootle-too’ heard early mornings and evenings. A shy but lively bird of grassy rock-and bush-strewn hillsides and dry watercourses in Namibia.