Winding cisticola
| Winding cisticola | |
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| Cisticola (g.) luapula in Botswana | |
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| C. (g.) galactotes in Mozambique | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Cisticolidae |
| Genus: | Cisticola |
| Species: | C. galactotes |
| Binomial name | |
| Cisticola galactotes (Temminck, 1821) | |
The winding cisticola (Cisticola galactotes) is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. 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 DRC, 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.
Gallery
Cisticola (g.) marginatus in Angola
Cisticola (g.) marginatus illustrated by Keulemans
Eggs of C. galactotes
References
- 1 2 BirdLife International (2012). "Cisticola galactotes". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- 1 2 "Cisticola galactotes". Avibase.
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- Sinclair, Ian & Peter Ryan (2003) Birds of Africa south of the Sahara, Struik, Cape Town.
External links
- Winding cisticola - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.