Red-faced Cisticola

Cisticola erythrops - Cisticole à face rousse

Systematics

Order
:
Passeriformes
Family
:
Cisticolidés
Genus
:
Cisticola
Species
:
erythrops

Descriptor

Hartlaub, 1857

Biometrics

Size
: 15 cm
Wingspan
: -
Weight
: 10 à 18 g

Geographic range

Distribution

Identification

Red-faced Cisticola (Cisticola erythrops) is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family.

Subspecific information 6 subspecies

Cisticola erythrops erythrops (Mauritania, Senegal and Gambia to Central African Republic, Congo and Gabon)
Cisticola erythrops pyrrhomitra (se Sudan and Ethiopia)
Cisticola erythrops niloticus (c Sudan)
Cisticola erythrops sylvia (ne DRCongo and s Sudan to Kenya and c Tanzania)
Cisticola erythrops nyasa (se DRCongo and s Tanzania to e South Africa)
Cisticola erythrops lepe (Angola)

Foreign names

Cisticole à face rousse,
Cistícola carirrojo,
fuinha-de-faces-vermelhas,
Rotgesicht-Zistensänger,
vörösképű szuharbújó,
Roodmaskergraszanger,
Cisticola facciarossa,
rostkindad cistikola,
Rødmaskegressanger,
cistovník červenolíci,
cistovník rezavolící,
Rødmasket Cisticola,
punaposkiherttu,
Rooiwangtinktinkie,
cistícola de cara vermella,
chwastówka rdzawolica,
Краснолицая цистикола,
アカガオセッカ,
红脸扇尾莺,
rostkindad cistikola,
紅臉扇尾鶯,

Voice song and cries

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Habitat

Shrubland : Subtropical/Tropical Dry ; Grassland : Subtropical/Tropical Seasonally Wet/Flooded ; Wetlands (inland) : Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls), Shrub Dominated Wetlands, Bogs, Marshes, Swamps, Fens, Peatlands ; Artificial/Terrestrial : Rural Gardens, Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest