Pale-crowned Cisticola - BirdForum Opus

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Photo © by Andy Adcock
Wakkestroom, South Africa 1 December 2014

Cisticola cinnamomeus

Distribution

Discontinuous in Africa south of the equator: Congo, DRC and Tanzania, and south to eastern South Africa

Taxonomy

Cisticola cinnamomeus was recently split from C. brunnescens (Pectoral-patch Cisticola); C. cinnamomeus is recognised as a separate species by Clements^[1], Dickinson ^[2], Gill & Wright^[3], Hockey et al.^[4] and Sinclair and Ryan^[5].

Photo by megan perkins
Location: Creighton, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Habitat

Damp areas in grassland.

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. Dickinson, EC, ed. 2003. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 3rd ed., with updates to December 2007 (Corrigenda 7). Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691117010
3. Gill, F and M Wright. 2008. Birds of the World: Recommended English Names. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, USA. 2006. ISBN 9780691128276. Update (2008) downloaded from http://worldbirdnames.org/names.html.
4. Hockey, PAR, WRJ Dean, and PG Ryan, eds. 2005. Roberts' Birds of Southern Africa. 7th ed. Cape Town: John Voelcker Bird Book Fund. ISBN 978-0620340533
5. Sinclair, I and P Ryan. 2003. Birds of Africa South of the Sahara. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691118154

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• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Pale-crowned Cisticola. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 5 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Pale-crowned_Cisticola

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