Foxy Cisticola

Foxy Cisticola
Foxy Cisticola
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Cisticolidae
Genus: Cisticola
Species: C. troglodytes
Binomial name
Cisticola troglodytes
(Antinori, 1864)

The Foxy Cisticola (Cisticola troglodytes) is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family.

It is native to Central African Republic (Bozoum and Manovo-Gounda St. Floris National Park), Democratic Republic of the Congo (Garamba National Park), Ethiopia (Gambela National Park), Kenya (Mount Elgon), Sudan (Ashana-Bandingilo-Dinder-Imatong Mountains and Juba) and Uganda (Kidepo Valley National Park, Mt Kie Forest, Mt. Moroto Forest Reserve and Mt Otzi Forest Reserve). It is also to be vagrant to Mali.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, dry savanna, and subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland.

  1. forest- Subtropical\tropical dry forest, minor
  2. Grass land-Subtropical, seasonally wet, Minor
  3. Savanna- Dry, major

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