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Singing Cisticola
Cisticola cantans (Heuglin, MT 1869)
The singing cisticola is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. Source: Wikipedia
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Passeriformes
Family:
Cisticolidae
Genus:
Cisticola
Scientific:
Cisticola cantans
Classification
Order:Passeriformes
Family:
Cisticolidae
Genus:
Cisticola
Scientific:
Cisticola cantans
Original description
Citation:
(Heuglin, MT 1869)
Reference:
Ibis
Protonym:
Drymoeca cantans
Type locality:
Abyssinia. Type, in Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, from Gondar, fide Lynes, 1930, Ibis, Cisticola Suppl., p. 623.
Link:
https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8619106
Avibase identifiers
Avibase ID:
6B64558BBB018E28
Avibase ID:
avibase-6B64558B
Short link:
https://avibase.ca/6B64558B
Taxonomic Serial Number:
TSN: 559316
Geographic range:
- Cisticola cantans cantans: southern Eritrea to southern Ethiopia
- Cisticola cantans adamauae: Cameroon to Congo and northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Cisticola cantans swanzii: Senegambia to southern Nigeria
- Cisticola cantans concolor: northern Nigeria to southern Sudan and South Sudan
- Cisticola cantans belli: Central African Republic to northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and northwestern Tanzania
- Cisticola cantans pictipennis: Kenya and northern Tanzania (south to Nguru Mountains)
- Cisticola cantans muenzneri: southern Tanzania (Uluguru Mountains) to Zimbabwe
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Source: Clements checklist
Singing Cisticola
Catalan:
cistícola cantaire
Czech:
cistovník zpěvavý
Danish:
Sangcisticola
German:
Rostflügel-Zistensänger
Spanish:
Cistícola Cantor
Spanish (Spain):
Cistícola Cantor
Finnish:
kyläherttu
French:
Cisticole chanteuse
Croatian:
cvrkutava šivalica
Hungarian:
barnásfehér szuharbújó
Italian:
Cisticola canora
Japanese (romaji):
utaisekka
Japanese:
ウタイセッカ
Lithuanian:
Cistikola giesmininkė
Dutch:
Witbrauwgraszanger
Norwegian Nynorsk:
Kantorgrassongar
Norwegian:
Kantorgressanger
Polish:
chwastówka rdzawogłowa
Portuguese:
fuinha-cantora
Portuguese (Portugal):
fuinha-cantora
Russian:
Певчая цистикола
Slovak:
cistovník spevavý
Serbian:
Pevajuća šivačica
Swedish:
vitbrynad cistikola
Ukrainian:
Таміка співоча
Chinese:
歌扇尾莺
Chinese (Traditional):
鳴唱扇尾鶯
Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:
| African Bird Club Checklist 2004: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| African Bird Club Checklist August 2005: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| African Bird Club Checklist March 2007: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| African Bird Club Checklist January 2008: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| African Bird Club Checklist May 2009: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| African Bird Club Checklist March 2010: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts (current): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 01 (August 2013): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 02 (May 2014): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 03 (March 2015): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 04 (Aug 2016): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 05 (Jan 2017): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 00: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 01: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 02: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 03: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 04: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 05 (Jun 2012): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 05.1 (Oct 2012): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 06 (Nov 2013): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 06.1 (Feb 2014): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 07 (Jul 2014): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 08 (Oct 2015): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 09 (Dec 2016): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 09.1 (Jun 2017): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v2 (Dec 2017): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v3 (Nov 2018): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v4 (Dec 2019): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v5 (Dec 2020): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v6 (Dec 2021): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v6b (Jul 2022): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v7 (Dec 2022): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v8 (Dec 2023): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v9 (Oct 2024): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Commission internationale pour les noms français des oiseaux (1993, révision 2009): Cisticole chanteuse ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Commission internationale pour les noms français des oiseaux (1993): Cisticole chanteuse ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Clements 1st edition: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Clements, version 2021: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Clements, version 2022: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Clements, version 2023: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Clements, version 2024: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Clements 3rd edition: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Clements 4th edition: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Clements 5th edition (as published): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Clements 5th edition (incl. 2000 revisions): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Clements 5th edition (incl. 2001 revisions): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Clements 5th edition (incl. 2002 revisions): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Clements 5th edition (incl. 2003 revisions): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Clements 5th edition (incl. 2004 revisions): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Clements 5th edition (incl. 2005 revisions): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition (incl. 2007 revisions): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition (incl. 2008 revisions): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition (incl. 2009 revisions): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition (version 6.5 incl. 2010 revisions): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition (version 6.6 incl. 2011 revisions): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition (version 6.7 incl. 2012 revisions): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition (version 6.8 incl. 2013 revisions): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition (version 6.9 incl. 2014 revisions): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Clements, version 2015: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Clements, version 2016: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Clements, version 2017: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Clements, version 2018: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Clements, version 2019: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| eBird version 1.50: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| eBird version 1.52: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| eBird version 1.53: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| eBird version 1.54: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| eBird version 1.55: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2015: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2016: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2017: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2018: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2019: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2021: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2022: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2023: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2024: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 2nd edition: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 2nd edition (incl. ? suppl): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (as published): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 1.2): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 2.1): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 3.1): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 4): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 5): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 6): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 7): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 8): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 4th edition (vol. 1-2): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 4th edition (incl. corrigenda vol.1-2): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Handbook of the Birds of the World (vol 1-16): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (31/01/2015): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (03/07/2017): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Handbook of the Birds of the World and Birdlife (Dec 2017): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Handbook of the Birds of the World and Birdlife (Dec 2018): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 1.0: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 1.1: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 1.5: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 1.6: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 1.7: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.0: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.1: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.2: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.3: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.4: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.5: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.6: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.7: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.8: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.9: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.10: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.11: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 3.1: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 3.2: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 3.3: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 3.4: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 3.5: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 4.1: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 4.2: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 4.3: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 4.4: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 5.1: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 5.2: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 5.3: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 5.4: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 6.1: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 6.2: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 6.3: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 6.4: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 7.1: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 7.2: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 7.3: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 8.1: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 8.2: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 9.1: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 9.2: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 10.1: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 10.2: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 11.1: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 11.2: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 12.1: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 12.2: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 13.1: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 13.2: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 14.1: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 14.2: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Morony, Bock and Farrand: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Peters' Check-list of the Birds: Cisticola cantans [version 1] |
| Peters' Check-list of the Birds (original): Cisticola cantans [version 1] |
| Peters' Check-list of the Birds (2nd edition): Cisticola cantans [version 1] |
| Sibley and Monroe (1993): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Sibley and Monroe (1993, including corrections up to 1998): Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Sibley and Monroe, Birds of the World Version 2.0: Singing Cisticola ( Cisticola cantans) [version 1] |
| Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource: Cisticola cantans [version 1] |
| Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource: Cisticola cantans [version 1] |
Taxonomic status:
Species status: full species
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Other synonyms
See also the taxonomic synonyms table.
Afrikaans: Singende Tinktinkie
Catalan: cistícola cantaire
Czech: Cistovník zpevavý, cistovník zpěvavý
Danish: Sangcisticola
German: Grauer Zistensänger, Graurücken-Zistensänger, Rostflügel-Zistensänger, Weißbrauen-Cistensänger, Weißbrauen-Zistensänger
English: Singing Cisticola, Singing Grass-Warbler
English, HBW: Singing Cisticola
English (IOC): Singing Cisticola
English (Kenya): Singing Cisticola
English (United States): Singing Cisticola
Esperanto: Kantocistikolo
Spanish: Buitrón Cantador, Cistícola Cantor
Spanish (Spain): Cistícola Cantor
Spanish (HBW): Singing Cisticola
Finnish: kyläheinäkerttu, kyläherttu, Tarhaheinäkerttu
French: Cisticole chanteuse
Croatian: cvrkutava šivalica
Hungarian: barnásfehér szuharbújó
Italian: Beccamoschino canoro, Cisticola canora
Japanese (romaji): utaisekka
Japanese: ウタイセッカ
Scientific: Cisticola cantans, Cisticola cantans cantans, Drymoeca cantans
Lithuanian: Cistikola giesmininkė
Dutch: Witbrauwgraszanger, Witbrauw-graszanger
Norwegian Nynorsk: Kantorgrassongar
Norwegian: Kantorgressanger
Polish: chwastówka rdzawoglowa, chwastówka rdzawogłowa
Portuguese: Fuinha-cantora, Fuinha-cantora.
Portuguese (Portugal): fuinha-cantora
Russian: Белобровая цистикола, Певчая цистикола
Slovak: cistovník spevavý, Cistovníkovec spevavý
Serbian: Pevajuća šivačica
Swedish: vitbrynad cistikola, Vitbrynad grässångare
Swahili: Kidenenda Mwimbaji
Turkish: Ötücü yelpazekuyruk
Ukrainian: Таміка співоча
Chinese: 歌扇尾莺
Chinese (Traditional): 鳴唱扇尾鶯
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