Red-pate Cisticola

When to see the Red-pate Cisticola

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

Where to see the Red-pate Cisticola

The map shades 6 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 South Sudan.

About the Red-pate Cisticola

The red-pate cisticola is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and swamps.

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Easily confused with

Black-backed CisticolaCisticola eximiusThe black-backed cisticola or black-necked cisticola is a species of passerine bird in the family Cisticolidae. Lynes's CisticolaCisticola distinctusLynes's cisticola is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. Black-lored CisticolaCisticola nigrilorisThe black-lored cisticola is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae.