Winding Cisticola

Winding Cisticola
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Cisticolidae
Genus:	Cisticola
Species:	C. galactotes
Binomial name
Cisticola galactotes (Temminck, 1821)

The Winding Cisticola (Cisticola galactotes) is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It has a scattered distribution across Africa south of the Sahara.

Taxonomy

The Winding Cisticola has numerous subspecies which are sometimes grouped into five separate species:

• Rufous-winged Cisticola (C. galactotes): south-east Africa
• Winding Cisticola (C. marginatus): fairly widespread across west, central and east Africa
• Coastal Cisticola (C. haematocephalus) : Tanzania, Kenya and Somalia
• Ethiopian Cisticola (C. lugubris): Ethiopia and Eritrea
• Luapula Cisticola (C. luapula): south-central Africa

Distribution and habitat

It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland and swamps.

References

• BirdLife International 2004. Cisticola galactotes. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 25 July 2007.
• Sinclair, Ian & Peter Ryan (2003) Birds of Africa south of the Sahara, Struik, Cape Town.

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