Red-faced cisticola
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.
| 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 |
| Binomial name | |
| Cisticola erythrops (Hartlaub, 1857) | |
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.
References
- BirdLife International (2012). "Cisticola erythrops". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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