Male and female Cape Robin-Chats look alike, with a pale orange breast and a white eyebrow-like marking. In South Africa they use thickets, stream edges, forest margins, gardens, and parks, and feed near the ground on insects and other invertebrates.
Adult males and females look alike. A white eyebrow-like marking separates the dark lores and ear coverts from the crown; the breast is pale orange and the neck sides and underparts are greyish.
It often moves alone from a perch to the ground and then to another perch. Near the ground it eats insects, spiders, centipedes, earthworms, and other invertebrates.
Juveniles have heavily mottled underparts and lack the white eyebrow.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.