Hunter's Cisticola (Cisticola hunteri)

Family
Cisticolidae (Cisticolas And Allies)

Size
14 cm

First Described (Guide)
Shelley, 1889

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist montane forest, high altitude shrubland. From 1,600 - 4,400 m.

Range (Guide)

Kenya, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda.

Highlands of eastern Uganda (Mt Elgon), west-central Kenya and northern Tanzania.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (42)...)

Hunter's Cisticola (Cisticola hunteri) [XC816731]
by id from Castle Lodge Mount Kenya, Kenya (song)

Hunter's Cisticola (Cisticola hunteri) [XC662368]
by isaac kilusu from Nalemoru River,NE kilimanjaro, Tanzania (duet, song)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Chubb's Cisticola (Cisticola chubbi) and Black-lored Cisticola (Cisticola nigriloris), and apparently also with undescribed "Kilombero Cisticola" from south-eastern Tanzania. Birds in north of range (Mt Elgon) plainer and more rufous than those in southern (northern Tanzania), which browner and more streaked. Also some altitudinal variation, birds from more open habitats at high elevations on Mt Kilimanjaro drabber than those lower down. However, variation seems to be clinal, and naming of geographical subspecies considered unwarranted.

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Hunters Cisticola (Cisticola hunteri) - 10 files

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