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 NR    Rock-loving Cisticola* Id (Atlas):
    Cisticola emini

Description (10)
Image of Rock-loving Cisticola
 

Family
Cisticolidae (Cisticolas And Allies)

Size
14 cm

First Described (Guide)
Reichenow, 1892

Habitat
Dry savanna. From sea-level - 2,500 m.

Range (Guide)
Kenya, Tanzania [United Republic of].

Southern Kenya and northern Tanzania.
 
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 NR
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (16)...)

 
Rock-loving Cisticola (Cisticola emini) [XC395941]
     by James Bradley from Gembe Hills, Kenya (call)

 
Rock-loving Cisticola (Cisticola emini) [XC719024]
     by Peter Boesman from Tongo Hills, Upper East, Ghana (song)

Subspecies
Lazy Cisticola (Cisticola aberrans) and Rock-loving Cisticola (Cisticola emini) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) have been lumped into Cisticola aberrans following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993).

Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Lazy Cisticola (Cisticola aberrans).

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

  • admiralis Bates, 1930   -  Locally from southern Mauritania, Guinea and Mali east to Ghana, Togo and northern Benin. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Lazy Cisticola (Cisticola aberrans).
  • petrophilus Alexander, 1907   -  Nigeria and Cameroon east to southern Sudan and north-eastern DRCongo, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Lazy Cisticola (Cisticola aberrans).
  • emini Reichenow, 1892   -  Western, central. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Lazy Cisticola (Cisticola aberrans).
  • bailunduensis Neumann, 1931   -  Western Angola. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Huambo Cisticola (Cisticola bailunduensis).



References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Rock-loving Cisticola (Cisticola emini) - 10 files


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