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Species Details [Taxonomy: HBW - BirdLife (v3)] |
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Singing Cisticola* |
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Cisticola cantans |
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Description (10)
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Singing Cisticola
© flickr.com
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Family
Cisticolidae (Cisticolas And Allies)
Size
14 cm
First Described (Guide)
(Heuglin, 1869)
Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry shrubland.
Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, 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 (39)...)
Singing Cisticola (Cisticola cantans) [XC739550]
by Peter Boesman from Farmland west of Soroti, Uganda (song)
Singing Cisticola (Cisticola cantans) [XC739554]
by id from Farmland west of Soroti, Uganda (song)
Subspecies
Sometimes placed in a superspecies with Red-faced Cisticola (Cisticola erythrops), but ranges overlap considerably.
The following 7 subspecies are recognised:
- swanzii (Sharpe, 1870) - Senegal east to southern Nigeria.
- concolor (Heuglin, 1869) - Northern Nigeria east to Sudan.
- adamauae Reichenow, 1910 - Cameroon and south-western DRCongo.
- belli Ogilvie-Grant, 1908 - Central African Republic, northern DRCongo, Uganda and north-western Tanzania.
- cantans (Heuglin, 1869) - Highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea.
- pictipennis Madarász, 1904 - Kenya and northern Tanzania.
- muenzneri Reichenow, 1916 - Central Tanzania, eastern Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
References
See References.
Files:
BirdLife International
For more information about the Singing Cisticola see... BirdLife International Species Factsheet.
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