Singing cisticola

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Singing cisticola
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Cisticolidae
Genus: Cisticola
Species:
C. cantans
Binomial name
Cisticola cantans
(Heuglin, 1869)

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.

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Singing Cisticola - Nairobi National Park

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References

  1. 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.