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 LC    Red-faced Cisticola* Id (Atlas):
    Cisticola erythrops

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Red-faced Cisticola, Lepe Cisticola (lepe)

Family
Cisticolidae (Cisticolas And Allies)

Size
14 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Hartlaub, 1857)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland seasonally wet / flooded grassland, lowland dry shrubland. From sea-level - 2,400 m.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cote dIvoire, Central African Republic, Congo, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2012).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (80)...)

 
Red-faced Cisticola (Cisticola erythrops) [XC337581]
     by \u00c9tienne Leroy from Palmci estate, Boubo, Sud-Bandama, Ivory Coast (song)

 
Red-faced Cisticola (Cisticola erythrops) [XC537321]
     by isaac kilusu from Rwampara (near Mbarara), Mbarara, Western Region, Uganda (song)

Subspecies
Red-faced Cisticola (Cisticola erythrops) and Lepe Cisticola (Cisticola lepe) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) have been lumped into Cisticola erythrops following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993).

Sometimes placed in a superspecies with Singing Cisticola (Cisticola cantans), but ranges overlap considerably. Subspecies lepe sometimes considered a separate species; reported as being locally sympatric with sylvia in south-eastern DRCongo (Marungu Mts).

Proposed subspecies arcanus (described from north-western Zambia) and elusus (eastern Zimbabwe) synonymized with nyasa.

The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

  • erythrops (Hartlaub, 1857)   -  Senegal and southern Mauritania east to Central African Republic and north-eastern Gabon, south to R Congo.
  • sylvia Reichenow, 1904   -  South-western Sudan, north-eastern and eastern DRCongo, Kenya and central Tanzania.
  • pyrrhomitra Reichenow, 1916   -  South-eastern Sudan and Ethiopia.
  • niloticus Madarász, 1914   -  Blue Nile, in central Sudan.
  • lepe Lynes, 1930   -  Western and northern Angola, possibly extending eastern into south-eastern DRCongo. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Lepe Cisticola (Cisticola lepe).
  • nyasa Lynes, 1930   -  South-eastern DRCongo and southern Tanzania south to eastern South Africa.



References
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Files:
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