Scientific name: Sylvietta rufescens
The long-billed crombec is a small, nearly tailless bird 12 cm long and weighing around 16 g. Its upperparts are brownish grey-brown, and there is a pale grey supercilium, separated from the whitish throat by a dark eye stripe. The whitish breast shades into the buff belly. The long slightly curved bill is blackish.
In southern africa it is common in arid savanna, the Okavango Delta, mixed-species woodland with well-developed undergrowth, gardens, Acacia thickets, Mopane & Miombo woodland.
It mainly eats invertebrates, supplemented with seeds and fruit. Often foraging in mixed-species flocks, it gleans food from the leaves and branches of bushes and trees.
