LOCALLY common resident found solitary or in pairs, along the coastal belt of the South and Eastern Cape throughout all of KZN and East of the escarpment across the whole of Mozambique.
They like evergreen and riverine forests, dense woodlands, exotic plantations and well-wooded gardens.
These flycatchers feed on small fruit and insects which they hawk in the air from a low shady perch when they are usually noticed.
Rather quiet and unobtrusive, they flick their wings when perched and have a thin very high – pitched drawn out call tseeee.
Breeding season is September until January, building a small neat thick-walled cup nest of grass, plant fibres, rootlets as high as nine metres above ground.
Site chosen could be a hole in a bank or tree, rocky ledge even a hanging fern basket.
Two to three pale greenish speckled eggs are laid and incubation is 14 to 15 days.
There is no recorded Zulu tribal name and in Afrikaans called die donkervlieevanger.
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