Coastal cisticola
The coastal cisticola is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It is found on the coastal plain of East Africa.
Alternate common names are Mombasa black-backed cisticola.Taxonomy
The coastal cisticola is monotypic. This taxon was split from the winding cisticola by the and HBW, as were the rufous-winged cisticola, Luapula cisticola and Ethiopian cisticola. The Clements and Howard and Moore world lists consider these taxa as a single species, the winding cisticola C. galactotes .Distribution and habitat
This species is found on the coastal plain of East Africa between 5°N to 10°S.
Its natural habitats are tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland and swamps.
