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 LC    Wing-snapping Cisticola* Id (Atlas):
    Cisticola ayresii

Description (10)
Image of Wing-snapping Cisticola
 

Other Names (World)
Wing-snapping Cisticola, Ayres's Cisticola, Ayres's Cloud Cisticola

Family
Cisticolidae (Cisticolas And Allies)

Size
9 cm

First Described (Guide)
Hartlaub, 1863

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry and high altitude grassland.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Burundi, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Gabon, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], 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 (35)...)

 
Wing-snapping Cisticola (Cisticola ayresii) [XC504173]
     by Peter Boesman from Mwinilunga, Northwestern Province, Zambia (flight call)

 
Wing-snapping Cisticola (Cisticola ayresii) [XC519432]
     by Simon Cavaill\u00e8s from Wakkerstroom \, South Africa (song)

Subspecies
Taxonomic status of subspecies gabun subject to some confusion. Recent observations of singing birds indicate that it may instead be a form of Pectoral-patch Cisticola (Cisticola brunnescens). Further study is required.

The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

  • gabun Lynes, 1931   -  Western Gabon, eastern PRCongo and extreme western DRCongo.
  • imatong Cave, 1938   -  Extreme southern Sudan and north-eastern Uganda.
  • entebbe Lynes, 1930   -  North-eastern DRCongo, Uganda, western Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi and north-western Tanzania.
  • itombwensis Prigogine, 1957   -  Eastern DRCongo.
  • mauensis van Someren, 1922   -  Highlands of Kenya and adjacent northern Tanzania.
  • ayresii Hartlaub, 1863   -  Angola, southern DRCongo, extreme north-western and north-eastern Zambia, southern Tanzania, northern Malawi, Zimbabwe, eastern South Africa and Lesotho.



References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Wing-snapping Cisticola (Cisticola ayresii) - 10 files


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