Wailing Cisticola

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Cisticolidae

Genus

Cisticola

eBird Code

waicis3

Subspecies (7)

• Cisticola lais lais

  eastern South Africa and Lesotho

• Cisticola lais maculatus

  southwestern South Africa (eastward to Port Elizabeth)

• Cisticola lais mashona

  Zimbabwe to southern Mozambique, northeastern South Africa, and Eswatini

• Cisticola lais monticola

  north-central South Africa

• Cisticola lais namba

  highlands of western Angola

• Cisticola lais oreobates

  central Mozambique (Mount Gorongoza)

• Cisticola lais semifasciatus

  southern Tanzania (Iringa Plateau) to Malawi, Zambia, and northern Mozambique