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Location: Nairobi NP, Kenya
Cisticola robustus

Includes Angola Cisticola

Identification

Distribution

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

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 by Sibley and Monroe[2][3].

Habitat

Moist savanna and high-altitude grassland.

Behaviour

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

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