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| Species Details [Taxonomy: HBW - BirdLife (v3)] |
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Levaillant's Cisticola* |
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Cisticola tinniens |
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Description (10)
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Levaillant's Cisticola
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Other Names (World)
Levaillant's Cisticola, Tinkling Cisticola(!)
Family
Cisticolidae (Cisticolas And Allies)
Size
13 cm
First Described (Guide)
(Hartlaub, 1870)
Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry and moist shrubland. From 1,100 - 3,600 m.
Angola, Botswana, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.
Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (77)...)
Levaillant's Cisticola (Cisticola tinniens) [XC194275]
by Alan Collett from Bontebok National Park, Western Cape, South Africa (song)
Levaillant's Cisticola (Cisticola tinniens) [XC630109]
by Tony Archer from Verlaat farm, south of BFN, Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa (call)
Subspecies
Birds from south-western South Africa recently described as subspecies brookei, but this name is pre-dated by elegans.
The following 6 subspecies are recognised:
- dyleffi Prigogine, 1952 - Eastern DRCongo (north-west of Lake Tanganyika).
- oreophilus van Someren, 1922 - Western Kenya Highlands.
- perpullus Hartert, 1920 - Angola, southern DRCongo and western Zambia.
- shiwae White, CMN, 1947 - Eastern Zambia, south-western Tanzania and extreme south-eastern DRCongo.
- tinniens (Hartlaub, 1870) - Zimbabwe, adjacent highlands of Mozambique and summer-rainfall area of South Africa.
- elegans (Hartlaub & Finsch, 1870) - South-western South Africa (west of Port Elizabeth).
References
See References.
Files:
BirdLife International
For more information about the Levaillants Cisticola see...  BirdLife International Species Factsheet.
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