Coastal Cisticola

Cisticola haematocephalus

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesWetlandDomed nestTiny · 13 g

When to see the Coastal Cisticola

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Coastal Cisticola

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 2 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Somalia.

About the Coastal Cisticola

The coastal cisticola, also known as the umbabird, is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It is found on the coastal plain of East Africa.

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