Desert Cisticola

When to see the Desert Cisticola

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is December, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Desert Cisticola

The map shades 18 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 Mauritania.

About the Desert Cisticola

The desert cisticola is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It is present throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa, although relatively absent from central and coastal western areas of the continent.

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Easily confused with

Cloud CisticolaCisticola textrixThe cloud cisticola or tink-tink cisticola is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. Croaking CisticolaCisticola natalensisThe croaking cisticola is an Old World warbler in the family Cisticolidae. Rock-loving CisticolaCisticola aberransThe rock-loving cisticola is a medium sized cisticola with an overall length of 13–14 cm (5.1–5.5 in).