Passeriformes / Cisticolidae / Cisticola

Rock-loving Cisticola

Cisticola aberrans

IUCN: Least Concern

Data Sources

AviList 2025 Avibase

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Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.

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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

AviList 2025 Avibase

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

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.