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Ethiopian cisticola (1 Viewer)

Steve Babbs

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Dear all

I photographed this cisticola in the Bale Mountains last month. I presumed it was Ethiopian cisticola however the head is much more streaked than the paintings in Redman et al. but it doesn't seem to match anything else either and everything else seems to fit Ethiopian.

Any advice welcome.
 

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I agree the plumage looks right for pectoral patch cisticiola, but the field guide describes its tail as being "very short".
 
Isn't the situation that Ethiopian was considered conspecific with winding and, now it has been split, the birds in the Bale Mountains are Ethiopian and winding is limited to small, lowland areas of the border of Ethiopia?
 
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