Red-faced cisticola
Red-faced cisticola | |
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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
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Binomial name | |
Cisticola erythrops (Hartlaub, 1857)
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The red-faced cisticola (Cisticola erythrops) is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It is widely present across Sub-Saharan Africa (rare in southern Africa). 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 southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is sometimes regarded as a separate species, the Lepe cisticola.
Cisticola erythrops - MHNT
Cisticola erythrops sylvia - MHNT
References[]
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Cisticola erythrops". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22713268A94368373. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22713268A94368373.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
Categories:
- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Cisticola
- Birds of Sub-Saharan Africa
- Birds described in 1857
- Cisticolidae stubs