Winding Cisticola (Cisticola marginatus) | Photos, Calls and ID

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Winding Cisticola (Cisticola marginatus), photo 2 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

Winding Cisticola (Cisticola marginatus), photo 3 — Photo: (c) avocat, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Winding Cisticola (Cisticola marginatus), photo 4 — Photo: (c) Tristan Jobin, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Winding Cisticola (Cisticola marginatus), photo 5 — Photo: (c) Annika Lindqvist, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Winding Cisticola (Cisticola marginatus), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Adrien Jailloux, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Winding Cisticola (Cisticola marginatus), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Jiro Iguchi, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Winding Cisticola (Cisticola marginatus), photo 8 — Photo: (c) avocat, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Winding Cisticola (Cisticola marginatus), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Brodie Cass Talbott, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Winding Cisticola (Cisticola marginatus), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Tommy Andriollo, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

What the Winding Cisticola sounds like

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

Recorded by Anne Ndung'u · Call · Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Winding Cisticola

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

Where to see the Winding Cisticola

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 27 countries with regular records, and 2 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 Burkina Faso, Central African Republic.

About the Winding Cisticola

The winding cisticola is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It has a scattered distribution across Africa south of the Sahara, and north of 11°S.

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

Easily confused with

Wing-snapping CisticolaCisticola ayresiiThe wing-snapping cisticola, also known as Ayres' cisticola, is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae.

Rock-loving CisticolaCisticola aberransThe rock-loving cisticola is a medium sized cisticola with an overall length of 13–14 cm (5.1–5.5 in).

Wailing CisticolaCisticola laisThe wailing cisticola is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae.

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