Trilling Cisticola (Cisticola woosnami) | Photos, Calls and ID

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GrasslandDomed nestTiny · 14 g

Trilling Cisticola (Cisticola woosnami), photo 1 — Photo: Margaret Stevens · CC BY 4.0

Trilling Cisticola (Cisticola woosnami), photo 2 — Photo: Margaret Stevens · CC BY 4.0

Trilling Cisticola (Cisticola woosnami), photo 3 — Photo: avocat · CC BY 4.0

Trilling Cisticola (Cisticola woosnami), photo 4 — Photo: avocat · CC BY 4.0

Trilling Cisticola (Cisticola woosnami), photo 5 — Photo: Margaret Stevens · CC BY 4.0

Trilling Cisticola (Cisticola woosnami), photo 6 — Photo: avocat · CC BY 4.0

Trilling Cisticola (Cisticola woosnami), photo 7 — Photo: avocat · CC BY 4.0

Trilling Cisticola (Cisticola woosnami), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Nigel Voaden, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Trilling Cisticola (Cisticola woosnami), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Nigel Voaden, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Trilling Cisticola (Cisticola woosnami), photo 10 — Photo: (c) avocat, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

What the Trilling Cisticola sounds like

Sonogram of the Trilling Cisticola: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by paulo kivuyo · kikatiti, Meru, Arusha Region, Tanzania · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Trilling 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 Trilling Cisticola

Regular range

The map shades 7 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Uganda Tanzania Zambia Rwanda Kenya Congo - Kinshasa Malawi

About the Trilling Cisticola

The trilling cisticola is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It is found in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Rufous-winged CisticolaCisticola galactotesThe rufous-winged cisticola is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae.

Short-winged CisticolaCisticola brachypterusThe short-winged cisticola, also known as the siffling 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.

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