Scientific name: Onychognathus nabouroup
Plumage is uniformly glossy black, except for narrow pale rufous panel visible on folded wing, some whitish of central primaries often visible in flight.
Near-endemic to southern Africa, occurring from southern Angola through Namibia to the Northern, Western and Eastern Cape, marginally extending into the Free State. It generally prefers habitats with rock-strewn hills and valleys, as it is dependant on them for nesting and roosting sites.
It mainly eats insects, fruit, seeds, nectar and pollen, foraging on the ground or gleaning food from vegetation; it also regularly hawks prey from a perch. In addition it may remove ectoparasites from Klipspringers (Oreatragus Oreatragus) and Mountain zebra (Equus zebra).
