Short-winged Cisticola

When to see the Short-winged 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 Short-winged Cisticola

The map shades 28 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 Short-winged Cisticola

The short-winged cisticola, also known as the siffling cisticola, is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It is found in Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

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Easily confused with

Trilling CisticolaCisticola woosnamiThe trilling cisticola is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. Rufous-winged CisticolaCisticola galactotesThe rufous-winged cisticola is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. Hunter's CisticolaCisticola hunteriHunter's cisticola is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae.