Rock-loving Cisticola

Cisticola aberrans

IUCN: Least Concern

Taxonomy

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Cisticolidae
Genus
Cisticola

Vocalizations

Matthew Fainman · CC_BY_4_0

Subspecies (7)

  • Cisticola aberrans aberrans

    southeastern Botswana and northeastern South Africa

  • Cisticola aberrans admiralis

    Guinea to Sierra Leone, Mali, and southern Ghana

  • Cisticola aberrans emini

    southern Kenya to northern Tanzania

  • Cisticola aberrans lurio

    Malawi (east of Rift Valley) and adjacent northwestern Mozambique

  • Cisticola aberrans minor

    lowlands of southern Mozambique, eastern Eswatini, and eastern and southeastern South Africa

  • Cisticola aberrans nyika

    southwestern Tanzania to Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique

  • Cisticola aberrans petrophilus

    northern Nigeria and Cameroon eastward to northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern South Sudan, and northern Uganda

Data Sources

AviList 2025 Avibase

Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.