Tinkling Cisticola (Cisticola tinniens)

Other Names (World)
Levaillant's Cisticola, Tinkling Cisticola(!)

Family
Cisticolidae (Cisticolas And Allies)

Size
13 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Hartlaub, 1870)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry and moist shrubland. From 1,100 - 3,600 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Botswana, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (77)...)

Levaillant's Cisticola (Cisticola tinniens) [XC509666]
by Frank Lambert from Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa (song)

Levaillant's Cisticola (Cisticola tinniens) [XC126261]
by Niall Perrins from Benfontijn Gamereserve, Lejweleputswa, Free State, South Africa (song)

Subspecies
Birds from south-western South Africa recently described as subspecies brookei, but this name is pre-dated by elegans.

The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

dyleffi Prigogine, 1952 - Eastern DRCongo (north-west of Lake Tanganyika).
oreophilus van Someren, 1922 - Western Kenya Highlands.
perpullus Hartert, 1920 - Angola, southern DRCongo and western Zambia.
shiwae White, CMN, 1947 - Eastern Zambia, south-western Tanzania and extreme south-eastern DRCongo.
tinniens (Hartlaub, 1870) - Zimbabwe, adjacent highlands of Mozambique and summer-rainfall area of South Africa.
elegans (Hartlaub & Finsch, 1870) - South-western South Africa (west of Port Elizabeth).

References
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Files:

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