Rattling Cisticola - BirdForum Opus

Photo by JWN Andrewes
Location: Lake Naivasha, Kenya

Cisticola chiniana

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.

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

Habitat

Its natural habitat is dry savanna.

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.

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Rattling Cisticola. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 3 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Rattling_Cisticola

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