Short-winged Cisticola (Cisticola brachypterus) [XC76595]
by Brendan Sloan from Akagera fringes near Nyankora, Rwanda (call, contact calls)
Short-winged Cisticola (Cisticola brachypterus) [XC339717]
by James Bradley from Diemb\u00e9ring (dunes), Oussouye, Casamance, Senegal (song)
Subspecies
May be closely allied to the superspecies formed by Rufous Cisticola (Cisticola rufus) and Foxy Cisticola (Cisticola troglodytes), but overlaps in geographical range with both these species.
Proposed subspecies tenebricosus (southern Mozambique) synonymized with isabellinus.
The following 9 subspecies are recognised:
brachypterus (Sharpe, 1870) - Senegal east to western Sudan, south to northern Angola (Cabinda) and northern DRCongo.