Biology:Red-faced cisticola
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Short description: Species of bird
| Red-faced cisticola | |
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| Singing near the Crocodile River in Mpumalanga, South Africa | |
| File:Red-faced Cisticola (Cisticola erythrops) (W1CDR0000939 BD22).ogg | |
| Song recorded in Limpopo, South Africa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Cisticolidae |
| Genus: | Cisticola |
| Species: | C. erythrops
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| Binomial name | |
| Cisticola erythrops (Hartlaub, 1857)
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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.
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.
Gallery
Cisticola erythrops - MHNT
Cisticola erythrops sylvia - MHNT
Non-breeding adult at Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
In Cuanza Norte Province, northern Angola
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References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2016). "Cisticola erythrops". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22713268A94368373. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22713268A94368373.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22713268/94368373. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
Wikidata ☰ Q1590193 entry
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