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 LC    Rufous-winged Cisticola* Id (Atlas):
    Cisticola galactotes

Description (10)
Image of Rufous-winged Cisticola
 

Other Names (World)
Rufous-winged Cisticola, Winding Cisticola

Family
Cisticolidae (Cisticolas And Allies)

Size
13 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Temminck, 1821)

Range (Guide)
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, 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 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (3)...)

 
Rufous-winged Cisticola (Cisticola galactotes) [XC774279]
     by id from Mfolozi Floodplain, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (?)

 
Rufous-winged Cisticola (Cisticola galactotes) [XC408045]
     by Antonio Xeira from Bizana, Transkei District, Eastern Cape, South Africa (call)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Luapula Cisticola (Cisticola luapula), Winding Cisticola (Cisticola marginatus), Ethiopian Cisticola (Cisticola lugubris) and Coastal Cisticola (Cisticola haematocephalus) and all often treated as conspecific, but separated on basis of vocal and plumage differences. Further research, using genetic markers, is required.

The following 12 subspecies are recognised:

  • isodactylus Peters, W, 1868   -  Southern and eastern Malawi, Mozambique and extreme south-eastern Zimbabwe.
  • galactotes (Temminck, 1821)   -  Southern Mozambique and eastern coast of South Africa.
  • amphilectus Reichenow, 1875   -  Southern Mauritania and Senegal east to Ghana, southern Nigeria, Cameroon and western Congo Basin (south to Cabinda, in northern Angola).
  • zalingei Lynes, 1930   -  Northern Nigeria (possibly also Mali and Niger) east to western Sudan.
  • marginatus (von Heuglin, 1869)   -  Southern Sudan and northern Uganda.
  • nyansae Neumann, 1905   -  Central and eastern DRCongo, Uganda and Kenya.
  • suahelicus Neumann, 1905   -  Tanzania, south-eastern DRCongo and extreme north-eastern Zambia.
  • schoutedeni White, CMN, 1954   -  Western Zambia.
  • stagnans Clancey, 1969   -  Caprivi Strip and adjacent southern Zambia and western Zimbabwe.
  • luapula Lynes, 1933   -  Angola and Namibia to Zambia and Zimbabwe.
  • lugubris (Rüppell, 1840)   -  Ethiopia, Eritrea.
  • haematocephala Cabanis, 1868   -  Coastal southern Somalia to Kenya and northern Tanzania.



References
See References.


Files:
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