Short-winged Cisticola

The Short-winged Cisticola is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.

Rattling, Red-faced and Short-winged Cisticolas have, for obvious reasons, have been relegated to the second division. However despite their browns and beiges, their song adds to the general ambience and confirms that summer has arrived. Posted by Andrew Hester at 6:00 PM Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - Wattled Crane in Kolwezi 19/09/09: Three Wattled Cranes heard and seen flying over Kolwezi around mid day. More

the way, means short-winged cisticola, so common sense prevails even in scientific name giving, sometimes at least. Continue reading "The Ultimate LBJ" » Posted by bart and petra on November 12, 2007 3:39 PM | Permalink Search - Search this site: About November 2007 - This page contains all entries posted to Beating about the Bush in November 2007. They are listed from oldest to newest. More

the way, means short-winged cisticola, so common sense prevails even in scientific name giving, sometimes at least. Short-winged-Cisticola-1-GN_compressedThe little thing may well deserve the title of the ultimate little-brown-job or “LBJ”. Compared to its cisticola cousins or to other notorious competitors such as pipits and larks, it is probably the smallest, least conspicuously marked and most drably coloured of the lot. More

Distribution of Short-winged cisticola in southern Africa, based on statistical smoothing of the records from first SA Bird Atlas Project (© Animal Demography unit, University of Cape Town; smoothing by Birgit Erni and Francesca Little). Colours range from dark blue (most common) through to yellow (least common). Food It mainly eats insects, foraging unobtrusively in grass tufts and on the ground. More

Short-winged Cisticola Canon 7D 600mm focal length 1/1250 sec exposure F7.1 ISO 400 March 2010 Burma Valley, Zimbabwe Adult Short-winged Cisticola Canon 7D 600mm focal length 1/1250 sec exposure F7. More