Desert Cisticola (Cisticola aridulus)

Family
Cisticolidae (Cisticolas And Allies)

Size
10 cm

First Described (Guide)
Witherby, 1900

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry grassland, dry savanna.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

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

Desert Cisticola (Cisticola aridulus) [XC699536]
by Tony Archer from Samfya, Luapula Province, Zambia (call)

Desert Cisticola (Cisticola aridulus) [XC536941]
by Sander Bot from Camdeboo Local Municipality, Western District, Eastern Cape, South Africa (flight call)

Subspecies
The following 9 subspecies are recognised:

aridulus Witherby, 1900 - Sahel from southern Mauritania and Senegal east to Sudan.
lavendulae Ogilvie-Grant & Reid, 1901 - Eritrea, Ethiopia, north-western Somalia and northern Kenya.
tanganyika Lynes, 1930 - Central and southern Kenya and Tanzania.
perplexus White, CMN, 1947 - North-eastern Zambia (Bangweulu swamps).
lobito Lynes, 1930 - Western Angola.
traylori Benson & Irwin, 1966 - Eastern Angola and western Zambia.
eremicus Clancey, 1984 - Southern Angola, west-central and southern Zambia, northern Namibia, northern Botswana and Zimbabwe.
kalahari Ogilvie-Grant, 1910 - Central Namibia, southern Botswana and South African plateau.
caliginus Clancey, 1955 - Eastern South Africa (lowveld and KwaZulu-Natal) and Swaziland.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Desert Cisticola (Cisticola aridulus) - 10 files

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