Kingdom Animalia Genus Cisticola Phylum Chordata Rank Species | Family Cisticolidae Scientific name Cisticola galactotes Higher classification Cisticola Order Passerine | |
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Similar Cisticola, Bird, Red‑faced cisticola, Singing cisticola, Short‑winged cisticola | ||
The winding cisticola (Cisticola galactotes) is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It has a scattered distribution across Africa south of the Sahara.
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Alternate common names are rufous-winged cisticola and greater black-backed cisticola.
Taxonomy
The winding cisticola has numerous subspecies which are sometimes grouped into five separate species:
Distribution and habitat
It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, the DRC, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland and swamps.
