Black-necked Cisticola (Cisticola eximius)

Other Names (World)
Black-backed Cisticola, Black-necked Cisticola

Family
Cisticolidae (Cisticolas And Allies)

Size
10 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Heuglin, 1869)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry and high altitude grassland.

Range (Guide)

Burkina Faso, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (2)...)

Black-backed Cisticola (Cisticola eximius) [XC170172]
by Stratton Hatfield from Retenue de Nangbeto, Plateaux, Togo (call, song)

Black-backed Cisticola (Cisticola eximius) [XC719028]
by id from Sapeliga, White Volta, Upper East, Ghana (call)

Subspecies
Closely allied to Cloud Cisticola (Cisticola textrix) and Dambo Cisticola (Cisticola dambo). Birds in PRCongo, having golden-yellow crown and rump and different call, perhaps represent an undescribed subspecies.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

occidens Lynes, 1930 - Senegal eastern patchily to Nigeria.
winneba Lynes, 1931 - Coastal Ghana.
eximius (Heuglin, 1869) - Locally in PRCongo, Central African Republic, northern DRCongo, Sudan, north-western Eritrea, north-western Ethiopia, Uganda, extreme western Kenya and northern Tanzania.

References
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Files:

JPG files for Black-necked Cisticola (Cisticola eximius) - 10 files

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