Behaviour
The Cape Robin-Chat builds a cup-shaped nest of coarse vegetation, lined with animal hair, rootlets and other fine material. It normally nests from June to November in the South-western Cape and August to January elsewhere, but may nest at any time of the year. One of the partners will dowse his/her under feathers and use the moisture to soften nesting material for easy shaping of nest. The other partner brings the nesting material to the nest.
It prefers the cover of dense vegetation, foraging at and close to ground level, eating invertebrates, small frogs, lizards and fruit.
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Nest built in a Creeping fig
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Dappled plumage of a juvenile
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