Winding Cisticola

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Winding Cisticola
C. galactotes
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Cisticolidae
Genus: Cisticola
Species: C. galactotes
Binomial name
Cisticola galactotes
(Temminck, 1821)
Eggs of C. galactotes

The Winding Cisticola (Cisticola galactotes) is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It has a scattered distribution across Africa south of the Sahara.

Alternate common names are Rufous-winged Cisticola[2] and Greater Black-backed Cisticola.[1]

Taxonomy

The Winding Cisticola has numerous subspecies which are sometimes grouped into five separate species:[2]

  • Rufous-winged Cisticola (C. galactotes): south-east Africa
  • Winding Cisticola (C. marginatus): fairly widespread across west, central and east Africa
  • Coastal Cisticola (C. haematocephalus) : Tanzania, Kenya and Somalia
  • Ethiopian Cisticola (C. lugubris): Ethiopia and Eritrea
  • Luapula Cisticola (C. luapula): south-central Africa

Distribution and habitat

It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland and swamps.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 BirdLife International (2012). "Cisticola galactotes". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Cisticola galactotes on Avibase
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  • Sinclair, Ian & Peter Ryan (2003) Birds of Africa south of the Sahara, Struik, Cape Town.


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