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 LC    Croaking Cisticola* Id (Atlas):
    Cisticola natalensis

Description (10)
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Family
Cisticolidae (Cisticolas And Allies)

Size
14 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Smith, 1843)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry grassland, dry savanna, inland wetlands.

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, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, 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 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (38)...)

 
Croaking Cisticola (Cisticola natalensis) [XC762088]
     by Dries Van de Loock from Bol\u00e9ko, Lope, Ogoou\u00e9-Ivindo, Gabon (song)

 
Croaking Cisticola (Cisticola natalensis) [XC397952]
     by Peter Boesman from Mutinondo Wilderness area, Northern Province, Zambia (song)

Subspecies
Subspecies intergrade to some extent, especially nominate and strangei through southern Kenya, Tanzania and northern Mozambique.

Proposed subspecies kapitensis (central Kenya to north-eastern Tanzania) and littoralis (coast from south-eastern Kenya to north-eastern Tanzania) synonymized with strangei; matengorum (southern Tanzania to northern Mozambique) and vigilax (central Zimbabwe to north-eastern southern Africa) synonymized with nominate.

The following 8 subspecies are recognised:

  • strangei (Fraser, 1843)   -  Senegal to south-western Sudan, Uganda, Burundi, south-central Kenya and northern Tanzania.
  • tonga Lynes, 1930   -  Southern Sudan.
  • inexpectatus Neumann, 1906   -  Eritrea and central Ethiopian Highlands.
  • argenteus Reichenow, 1905   -  Southern Ethiopia, northern Kenya and southern Somalia.
  • huambo Lynes, 1930   -  Western and central Angola.
  • katanga Lynes, 1930   -  North-eastern Angola, southern DRCongo, Zambia (except south-western and east), south-western Tanzania and northern Malawi.
  • natalensis (Smith, 1843)   -  South-central Tanzania, eastern Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and eastern South Africa.
  • holubii (Pelzeln, 1882)   -  South-western Zambia, north-eastern Botswana and extreme western Zimbabwe.



References
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Files:
JPG files for Croaking Cisticola (Cisticola natalensis) - 10 files


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