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- Cisticola robustus
Includes Angola Cisticola
Identification
Distribution
Discontinuous in tropical Africa: Found in Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, DRC, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia and Angola.
Taxonomy
Cisticola robustus has seven subspecies:[1]
- C. r. santae
- Highlands of eastern Nigeria and western Cameroon
- C. r. schraderi
- Central Eritrea and adjacent northern Ethiopia
- C. r. robustus
- Northern Ethiopian plateau and Harrar
- C. r. omo
- Southern Ethiopian plateau
- C. r. nuchalis
- North-eastern Zaire to Kenya and northern Tanzania
- C. r. angolensis
- Southern Zaire to north-western Zambia and Angola
- C. r. awemba
- South-eastern Zaire to south-western Tanzania and north-eastern Zambia
Angola Cisticola (which includes C. r. angolensis and C. r. awemba) was considered a separate species (C. angolensis) by Sibley and Monroe[2][3].
Habitat
Moist savanna and high-altitude grassland.
Behaviour
References
- Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
- Sibley, CG and BL Monroe. 1993. Supplement to Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World. Yale University Press, New Haven and London. ISBN 0-300-05549-8
- Sibley, CG and BL Monroe. 1996. Birds of the World, on diskette, Windows version 2.0. Charles G. Sibley, Santa Rosa, CA, USA.
- Sinclair, I and P Ryan. 2003. Birds of Africa South of the Sahara. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691118154
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Stout Cisticola. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 3 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Stout_Cisticola
