FOUND in the Drakensberg and Lesotho highlands and montane regions to the south, the Drakensberg rock jumper is also known as the orange-breasted rock jumper.
It tends to favour higher mountain peaks in summer and can be found lower down on the escarpment in winter.
There it likes to be in steep alpine and subalpine grassland slopes with rocky outcrops. The birds feed on insects.
It makes loud, strident piping calls such as staccato ‘prreee- prreee- prreee’.
The Drakensberg rock jumper is monogamous and often breeds co-operatively. Its nest is an untidy, deep cup placed on ground below rock. grass tufts or shrubs.
It lays two to four eggs and incubation lasts 12 days.
