The East Coast Akalat is a small bird of forests from southeastern Kenya to Mozambique. It searches for insects on the ground and in the understorey, and also eats berries, seeds, and very small frogs.
Adults have bronze-brown upperparts and yellowish to orange-rufous throat, breast, and flanks. The belly is white in the general description, but the southeastern Kenya and eastern Tanzania subspecies has an orange-buff belly.
It turns leaves on the ground and in the understorey for prey, and sometimes sallies from a perch to catch flying invertebrates. It also follows ant swarms and eats berries, seeds, and very small frogs.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.