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- Cisticola ruficeps
Includes Mongalla Cisticola
[edit] Identification
[edit] Distribution
Africa
Western Africa: occurs only in Chad
Eastern Africa: Sudan (including South Sudan) and Eritrea.
[edit] Taxonomy
[edit] Subspecies
There are four subspecies[1]:
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- Chad to southern Sudan] (Kordofan and Bahr-el-Ghazal)
- Central Sudan (White and Blue Nile valleys) to Eritrea
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Mongalla from southern Sudan and northern Uganda has been treated as full species, Mongalla Cisticola.
[edit] Habitat
Dry savanna and swamps.
[edit] Behaviour
[edit] References
- Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
- Avibase
- More pictures and ID discussion
[edit] External Links