Scientific name: Andropadus importunus
The sombre greenbul is 15–18 cm long, with mainly dull greyish olive-green plumage, paler on the underparts than above. It has a white iris. The sexes are similar in plumage, but juveniles are even duller than the adult and have dark eyes.
It generally prefers coastal scrub and forest, or well-wooded valleys further inland. It also occupies thornveld, dry woodland thickets along drainage lines in the Karoo and gardens in well-wooded suburbs.
It eats mainly eats fruit, foraging in the foliage of trees and bushes, regularly singing its distinctive call.
