Winding cisticola
The winding cisticola is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It has a scattered distribution across Africa south of the Sahara, and north of 11°S.Taxonomy
The winding cisticola has several subspecies:
- C. m. amphilectus Reichenow, 1875 Mauritania and Senegal to Ghana, south-western Cameroon and north-western Angola
- C. m. zalingei Lynes, 1930 northern Nigeria to western Sudan
- C. m. marginatus southern Sudan and northern Uganda
- C. m. nyansae Neumann, 1905 central DRCongo to Uganda and Kenya
- C. m. suahelicus Neumann, 1905 south-eastern DRCongo, Tanzania and north-eastern Zambia
The Clements list and the Howard and Moore list lump the rufous-winged cisticola, Luapula cisticola, coastal cisticola and Ethiopian cisticola with the above subspecies as the winding cisticola Cisticola galactotes . The Clements list recognizes 11 subspecies.Habitat
Its natural habitats are tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland and swamps.Gallery
