Black-lored Cisticola (Cisticola nigriloris)

Other Names (World)
Black-lored Cisticola, Mountain Cisticola

Family
Cisticolidae (Cisticolas And Allies)

Size
15 cm

First Described (Guide)
Shelley, 1897

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry shrubland, high altitude grassland.

Range (Guide)

Malawi, Tanzania [United Republic of], Zambia.

Highlands of southern Tanzania, extreme north-eastern Zambia and northern Malawi.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (28)...)

Black-lored Cisticola (Cisticola nigriloris) [XC395920]
by Peter Boesman from Chelinda Camp, Nyika National Park, Malawi (call)

Black-lored Cisticola (Cisticola nigriloris) [XC311906]
by Frank Lambert from Malawi, Nyika NP, Acacia stand, Northern Region, Malawi (song)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Chubb's Cisticola (Cisticola chubbi) and Hunter's Cisticola (Cisticola hunteri), and apparently also with undescribed "Kilombero Cisticola" from south-eastern Tanzania.

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Black-lored Cisticola (Cisticola nigriloris) - 10 files

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