The singing cisticola (Cisticola cantans) is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
Singing cisticola | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Cisticolidae |
Genus: | Cisticola |
Species: | C. cantans
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Binomial name | |
Cisticola cantans (Heuglin, 1869)
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References
edit- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Cisticola cantans". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22713279A94368749. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22713279A94368749.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
External links
edit- Singing cisticola - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.