Cricket Longtail

Cricket Longtail

Taxobox
name = Cricket Longtail


status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Cisticolidae
genus = "Spiloptila"
genus_authority = Sundevall, 1872
species = "S. clamans"
binomial = "Spiloptila clamans"
binomial_authority = (Temminck, 1828)
synonyms =

The Cricket Longtail ("Spiloptila clamans") is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It belongs to the genus "Spiloptila"; it is often the only species included in the genus but sometimes the Red-fronted Warbler is placed there as well.

It is found in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and Sudan.Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

References

* BirdLife International 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/52374/all Spiloptila clamans] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 27 July 2007.
*Ryan, Peter (2006). Family Cisticolidae (Cisticolas and allies). Pp. 378-492 in del Hoyo J., Elliott A. & Christie D.A. (2006) "Handbook of the Birds of the World". Volume 11. Old World Flycatchers to Old World Warblers" Lynx Edicions, Barcelona ISBN 978-84-96553-06-4


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