Rattling Cisticola

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Cisticolidae

Genus

Cisticola

eBird Code

ratcis1

Vocalizations

Subspecies (17)

• Cisticola chiniana bensoni

  southern Zambia

• Cisticola chiniana campestris

  coastal southern Mozambique, Eswatini, and eastern South Africa (southward to KwaZulu-Natal)

• Cisticola chiniana chiniana

  southeastern Botswana, Zimbabwe, western Mozambique, and northeastern South Africa

• Cisticola chiniana emendatus

  southeastern Tanzania to northern Mozambique, Malawi, and far eastern Zambia

• Cisticola chiniana fischeri

  north-central Tanzania (south to Tabora region)

• Cisticola chiniana fortis

  northern Angola to Zambia, southern Congo, Gabon, and southern Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Cisticola chiniana frater

  central Namibia

• Cisticola chiniana fricki

  southern Ethiopia to northern Kenya

• Cisticola chiniana heterophrys

  coastal Kenya and Tanzania

• Cisticola chiniana humilis

  western Kenya and northeastern Uganda; northern Tanzania (Loliondo region)

• Cisticola chiniana keithi

  south-central Tanzania (Dodoma to Iringa)

• Cisticola chiniana mbeya

  southern Tanzania (Mbeya to Chimala)

• Cisticola chiniana procerus

  far southern Malawi (Chiromo) and northern Mozambique (Tete)

• Cisticola chiniana simplex

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

• Cisticola chiniana smithersi

  western Zimbabwe to northwestern Botswana, southwestern Zambia, northern Namibia, and southern Angola

• Cisticola chiniana ukamba

  highlands of eastern Kenya and northeastern Tanzania

• Cisticola chiniana victoria

  Lake Victoria basin (southwestern Kenya and adjacent Tanzania)