Scientific name: Eremomela icteropygialis
Here it is fairly common in the shrublands of the Kalahari and the Karoo, also occupying savanna woodland (especially Acacia) and gardens.
The yellow-bellied eremomela is a very small bird 10 cm long and weighing around 9 g. Its upperparts are grey, becoming darker and more olive on the wings and tail. There is a thin pale grey supercilium and a blackish stripe through the eye. The grey breast shades into the lemon yellow belly. The bill is blackish.
It mainly eats insects, supplemented with fruit, seeds and nectar. It typically forages in the foliage of bushes and saplings, gleaning food from leaves and twigs and sometimes joining mixed species foraging flocks.
