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Genus Cisticola
Aberdare Mountain Cisticola - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Lazy Cisticola - It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland. It is usually associated with rocky wooded terrain with interspersed patchy grass tussocks. Usually at the foot of hills or in adjacent riparian vegetation.
Chattering Cisticola - The Chattering Cisticola is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and swamps.
Desert Cisticola - The Desert Cisticola is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland.
Boran Cisticola - The Boran Cisticola is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It is found in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Sudan. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, dry savanna, and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
Pale-crowned Cisticola - At 9-10cm. this is a small, streak backed cisticola with short or medium tail which may get longer in the breeding season.
Bubbling Cisticola - The Bubbling Cisticola is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It is found in Angola and Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland.
Carruthers' Cisticola - The Carruthers's Cisticola is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It is found in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitat is swamps.
Cisticola cherina - Madagascar Cisticolas are small cisticolas, 11 cm long and weighing 8-11 g. Overall they have brownish streaked backs, wings and heads and pale undersides. There are different colour variants, one more brownish, the other paler grey. Its call is described as a loud explosive ticking.
Chubb's Cisticola - The Chubb's Cisticola is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It is found in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Ashy Cisticola - The Ashy Cisticola is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It is found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, and Tanzania. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland.
Dambo Cisticola - The Cloud-scraping Cisticola is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It is found in Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Zambia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland.
Red-faced Cisticola - 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.
Golden-headed Cisticola - It is very similar in appearance to the Zitting Cisticola — however, in the breeding season males acquire a breeding plumage in which their head, throat and breast are a bright golden-orange colour, and their tails become shorter than in winter-plumage.
Black-necked Cisticola - The Black-necked Cisticola is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It is found in Burkina Faso, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland and subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland.
Neddicky - This cisticola is a resident breeder in much of Africa from Gabon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Tanzania south to the Cape.
Cisticola guinea - Dorst's Cisticola, also known as the Plaintive Cisticola, is a bird in the family Cisticolidae. It is found in Cameroon, Chad, Ivory Coast, Gambia, and Nigeria.
Socotra Cisticola - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Hunter's Cisticola - The Hunter's Cisticola is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It is found in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montanes and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland.
Zitting Cisticola - It has a very wide breeding range including southern Europe, Africa outside the deserts and rainforest, and southern Asia down to northern Australia. It is mainly resident, but some East Asian populations migrate south to warmer areas in winter.
Wailing Cisticola - The northern subspecies C. l. distinctus of Uganda, Kenya and northern Tanzania is sometimes regarded as a separate species, Lynes's Cisticola.
Black-tailed Cisticola - The Black-tailed Cisticola is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It is found in Angola and Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its natural habitat is dry savanna.
Croaking Cisticola - The Croaking Cisticola is a resident breeder in Africa south of the Sahara. It is a very small insectivorous bird.
Black-browed Cisticola - The Black-lored Cisticola is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It is found in Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
Churring Cisticola - The Churring Cisticola is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It is found in Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland.
Chirping Cisticola - The Chirping Cisticola is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland and swamps.
Tana River Cisticola - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.
Stout Cisticola - The southern subspecies C. r. angolensis and C. r. awemba are sometimes considered to form a separate species, the Angola Cisticola .
Tinkling Cisticola - The Grey Cisticola is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitat is dry savanna.
Greybacked Cisticola - The Red-headed Cisticola is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It is found in Angola, Namibia, and South Africa. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation.
Levaillant's Cisticola - Levaillant's Cisticola is a resident breeder in eastern Africa from Kenya to eastern South Africa. This cisticola is common in reedbeds, sedges, rank grass, and similar wet habitats usually near rivers or dams.
Foxy Cisticola - It is native to Central African Republic , Democratic Republic of the Congo , Ethiopia , Kenya , Sudan and Uganda . It is also to be vagrant to Mali.