Short-winged Cisticola

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Cisticolidae

Genus

Cisticola

eBird Code

sifcis1

Subspecies (9)

• Cisticola brachypterus ankole

  southern Uganda to Rwanda, Burundi, adjacent eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and northwestern Tanzania

• Cisticola brachypterus brachypterus

  Senegal southward to Liberia, eastward to Central African Republic, western South Sudan, and northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, southward to northern coastal Angola

• Cisticola brachypterus hypoxanthus

  northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern South Sudan, and northern Uganda

• Cisticola brachypterus isabellinus

  central Tanzania to Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and eastern Zambia

• Cisticola brachypterus katonae

  interior of Kenya and northern Tanzania

• Cisticola brachypterus kericho

  southwestern Kenya (Kericho)

• Cisticola brachypterus loanda

  southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo to western Zambia and interior Angola

• Cisticola brachypterus reichenowi

  far southern Somalia to coastal Kenya and Tanzania

• Cisticola brachypterus zedlitzi

  Eritrea and Ethiopian plateau