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| Species Details [Taxonomy: HBW - BirdLife (v3)] |
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Desert Cisticola* |
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Cisticola aridulus |
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Description (10)
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Desert Cisticola
© flickr.com
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Family
Cisticolidae (Cisticolas And Allies)
Size
10 cm
First Described (Guide)
Witherby, 1900
Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry grassland, dry savanna.
Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.
Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (42)...)
Desert Cisticola (Cisticola aridulus) [XC397757]
by Dawie de Swardt from Satao Elerai, Kajiado County, Kenya (drumming, song)
Desert Cisticola (Cisticola aridulus) [XC845560]
by Sander Bot from Kwa Kuchinia, Babati Rural, Manyara Region, Tanzania (?)
Subspecies
The following 9 subspecies are recognised:
- aridulus Witherby, 1900 - Sahel from southern Mauritania and Senegal east to Sudan.
- lavendulae Ogilvie-Grant & Reid, 1901 - Eritrea, Ethiopia, north-western Somalia and northern Kenya.
- tanganyika Lynes, 1930 - Central and southern Kenya and Tanzania.
- perplexus White, CMN, 1947 - North-eastern Zambia (Bangweulu swamps).
- lobito Lynes, 1930 - Western Angola.
- traylori Benson & Irwin, 1966 - Eastern Angola and western Zambia.
- eremicus Clancey, 1984 - Southern Angola, west-central and southern Zambia, northern Namibia, northern Botswana and Zimbabwe.
- kalahari Ogilvie-Grant, 1910 - Central Namibia, southern Botswana and South African plateau.
- caliginus Clancey, 1955 - Eastern South Africa (lowveld and KwaZulu-Natal) and Swaziland.
References
See References.
Files:
BirdLife International
For more information about the Desert Cisticola see...  BirdLife International Species Factsheet.
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