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Location: Nairobi NP, Kenya

Cisticola robustus

Includes Angola Cisticola

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

Discontinuous in tropical Africa: Found in Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, DRC, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia and Angola.

[edit] Taxonomy

Cisticola robustus has seven subspecies:^[1]

• C. r. santae

• Highlands of eastern Nigeria and western Cameroon

• C. r. schraderi

• Central Eritrea and adjacent northern Ethiopia

• C. r. robustus

• Northern Ethiopian plateau and Harrar

• C. r. omo

• Southern Ethiopian plateau

• C. r. nuchalis

• North-eastern Zaire to Kenya and northern Tanzania

• C. r. angolensis

• Southern Zaire to north-western Zambia and Angola

• C. r. awemba

• South-eastern Zaire to south-western Tanzania and north-eastern Zambia

Angola Cisticola (which includes C. r. angolensis and C. r. awemba) was considered a separate species (C. angolensis) by Sibley and Monroe^[2][3].

[edit] Habitat

Moist savanna and high-altitude grassland.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. 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.
2. Sibley, CG and BL Monroe. 1993. Supplement to Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World. Yale University Press, New Haven and London. ISBN 0-300-05549-8
3. Sibley, CG and BL Monroe. 1996. Birds of the World, on diskette, Windows version 2.0. Charles G. Sibley, Santa Rosa, CA, USA.
4. Sinclair, I and P Ryan. 2003. Birds of Africa South of the Sahara. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691118154

• List of references

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