Red-faced Cisticola

What the Red-faced Cisticola sounds like

Recorded by paulo kivuyo · Alarm call · Monduli, Monduli, Arusha Region, Tanzania · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Red-faced Cisticola

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

Where to see the Red-faced Cisticola

The map shades 29 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 Burundi.

About the Red-faced Cisticola

The red-faced cisticola is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It is widely present across sub-Saharan Africa. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland and swamps.

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Easily confused with

Grey-backed CisticolaCisticola subruficapillaThe grey-backed cisticola is a small, 13–14 cm long, vocal, dull-coloured bird with a dark rufous crown to its reddish head. Desert CisticolaCisticola aridulusThe desert cisticola is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. Cloud CisticolaCisticola textrixThe cloud cisticola or tink-tink cisticola is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae.