Red-faced cisticola

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Red-faced cisticola
Non-breeding adult at Darville, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Song recorded in Limpopo, South Africa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Aves
Order:
Passeriformes
Family:
Cisticolidae
Genus:
Cisticola
Species:
C. erythrops
Binomial name
Cisticola erythrops
(Hartlaub, 1857)

The red-faced cisticola (Cisticola erythrops) is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland and swamps.

The race C. e. lepe, found in Angola and possibly the south-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is sometimes regarded as a separate species, the Lepe cisticola.

  • Cisticola erythrops - MHNT
    Cisticola erythrops - MHNT
  • Cisticola erythrops sylvia - MHNT
    Cisticola erythrops sylvia - MHNT

References

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