Wailing Cisticola

When to see the Wailing 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 Wailing Cisticola

The map shades 9 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 Kenya.

About the Wailing Cisticola

The wailing cisticola is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It is found in Angola, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland.

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Easily confused with

Singing CisticolaCisticola cantansThe singing cisticola is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. Wing-snapping CisticolaCisticola ayresiiThe wing-snapping cisticola, also known as Ayres' cisticola, is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. Winding CisticolaCisticola marginatusThe winding cisticola is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae.