The Bearded Scrub Robin inhabits thickets and broad-leaved woodland in eastern and southern Africa. The mainland form has white eyebrows, moustachial stripes, and throat bordered by dark facial lines, plus white wing patches.
About 17 cm. The mainland form has an olive-brown crown and back, white eyebrows, moustachial stripes and throat, dark crown, eye and malar stripes, two white wing patches, buff-rufous breast and flanks, and a white belly.
It forages for invertebrates in leaf litter beneath dense cover in thickets and broad-leaved woodland.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.