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Rattling Cisticola

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Photo by JWN Andrewes
Location: Lake Naivasha, Kenya

Cisticola chiniana

1 Identification
2 Distribution
3 Taxonomy
4 Habitat
5 Behaviour
6 References
7 External Links

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

Eastern, central and southern Africa: Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

[edit] Taxonomy

Cisticola chinianahas 17 subspecies:^[1]

C. c. simplex - Southern Sudan to northern Uganda
C. c. fricki - Southern Ethiopia to northern Kenya
C. c. humilis - Western Kenya, north-eastern Uganda and northern Tanzania
C. c. ukamba - Highlands of eastern Kenya and north-eastern Tanzania
C. c. victoria - South-western Kenya and adjacent Tanzania
C. c. heterophrys - Coastal Kenya and Tanzania
C. c. fischeri - North-central Tanzania
C. c. keithi - South-central Tanzania
C. c. mbeya - Southern Tanzania
C. c. emendatus - South-eastern Tanzania to northern Mozambique, Malawi and extreme eastern Zambia
C. c. procerus - Extreme southern Malawi and northern Mozambique (Tete)
C. c. chiniana - Zimbabwe to western Mozambique, north-eastern South Africa and south-eastern Botswana
C. c. fortis - Northern Angola to Zambia, southern Congo, Gabon and southern Zaire
C. c. frater - Central Namibia
C. c. bensoni - Southern Zambia
C. c. smithersi - Western Zimbabwe to north-western Botswana, south-western Zambia, northern Namibia and southern Angola
C. c. campestris - Southern coastal Mozambique to eastern South Africa

[edit] Habitat

Its natural habitat is dry savanna.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.