Desert Cisticola
Cisticola aridulus
Taxonomy
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Cisticolidae
- Genus
- Cisticola
- eBird Code
- descis1
Vocalizations
Subspecies (9)
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Cisticola aridulus aridulus
southern Mauritania and Senegal eastward to Sudan
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Cisticola aridulus caliginus
eastern South Africa (south to KwaZulu-Natal), Eswatini, and southern Mozambique
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Cisticola aridulus eremicus
southern Angola to northern Namibia, southern Zambia, Zimbabwe, and northern Botswana
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Cisticola aridulus kalahari
central Namibia to southern Botswana and South Africa
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Cisticola aridulus lavendulae
coastal Eritrea to Ethiopia and Somalia
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Cisticola aridulus lobito
coastal Angola
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Cisticola aridulus perplexus
northern Zambia (Bangweulu swamps)
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Cisticola aridulus tanganyika
Kenya and Tanzania
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Cisticola aridulus traylori
eastern Angola and far western Zambia
Data Sources
Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.