Wing-snapping Cisticola (Cisticola ayresii)

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.

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) [XC397920]
by Gabriel A. Jamie from Plains around Chelinda, Nyika NP, Malawi (song)

Wing-snapping Cisticola (Cisticola ayresii) [XC280115]
by Peter Boesman from Chelmsford Nature Reserve, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa (display flight)

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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