Short-tailed, long-legged, long-billed warblers of forest and savanna undergrowth. The tail is often characteristically held cocked over the back. They belong to the family of Cisticolidae.
These birds forage low down and associate with animals in the hope of catching flushed prey.
Monogamous and strongly territorial. Male Camaroptera in breeding display bounces rapidly on branch with snapping wings and insistent call. Male Calamonastes makes short display fight with burring wings.Nests of Camaroptera and Calamonastes are special construcions: balls of dry grass, leaves etc. encased in 5 - 15 living leaves that are riveted to the nest with spider web, forming an outer shell, the interior of the nest is lined with plant down.Clutch of 3 eggs, light blue with speckles or plain white. Incubation largely by one parent (probably female). Parasitised by various small cuckoos and brown-backed honeybird.

Calamonastes = reed singer, a misnomer
Camaroptera = arched wing

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