Croaking Cisticola

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Cisticolidae

Genus

Cisticola

eBird Code

crocis1

Subspecies (8)

• Cisticola natalensis argenteus

  southern Ethiopia and southeastern Somalia to northern Kenya

• Cisticola natalensis holubii

  far northern Botswana, far western Zimbabwe, and adjacent south Zambia

• Cisticola natalensis huambo

  western and central Angola

• Cisticola natalensis inexpectatus

  highlands of Ethiopia

• Cisticola natalensis katanga

  southwestern Tanzania, adjacent northern Malawi, northeastern Zambia, southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and northeastern Angola

• Cisticola natalensis natalensis

  interior Tanzania to southeastern Zambia, Mozambique, and South Africa

• Cisticola natalensis strangei

  Senegal to Cabinda, Sudan, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, and Kenya

• Cisticola natalensis tonga

  Sudan (White Nile and Blue Nile regions)