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 LC    Siffling Cisticola* Id (Atlas):
    Cisticola brachypterus

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Short-winged Cisticola, Siffling Cisticola

Family
Cisticolidae (Cisticolas And Allies)

Size
11 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Sharpe, 1870)

Habitat
Dry savanna.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, 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 (61)...)

 
Short-winged Cisticola (Cisticola brachypterus) [XC456790]
     by Frank Lambert from Arabuko-Sokoke Forest, Kenya (song)

 
Short-winged Cisticola (Cisticola brachypterus) [XC552081]
     by Lars Lachmann from Kasanka National Park, Zambia (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.
  • hypoxanthus Hartlaub, 1881   -  North-eastern DRCongo, southern Sudan and northern Uganda.
  • zedlitzi Reichenow, 1909   -  Eritrea and Ethiopian Highlands.
  • katonae Madarász, 1904   -  Central Kenya and northern Tanzania.
  • kericho Lynes, 1930   -  South-western Kenya.
  • reichenowi Mearns, 1911   -  Southern Somalia, coastal Kenya and north-eastern Tanzania.
  • ankole Lynes, 1930   -  Eastern DRCongo and southern Uganda south to north-western Tanzania.
  • isabellinus Reichenow, 1907   -  Central Tanzania and southern and eastern Zambia south to Mozambique.
  • loanda Lynes, 1930   -  Angola, southern DRCongo and northern Zambia.



References
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Files:
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