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Wailing cisticola

Wailing cisticola
In KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Song recorded in Royal Natal National Park, South Africa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Cisticolidae
Genus: Cisticola
Species:
C. lais
Binomial name
Cisticola lais
(Hartlaub & Finsch, 1870)

The wailing cisticola (Cisticola lais) is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It is found in Angola, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland.

Lynes's cisticola of Uganda, Kenya and northern Tanzania is sometimes regarded as a subspecies of this species.[2]

The appearance of their eggs varies widely; they can be white, pale blue, spotted, or streaked.[3]

References

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Cisticola lais". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22713383A94372687. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22713383A94372687.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ Ryan, Peter; Dean, Ryan (2006-01-01). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Wailing Cisticola (Cisticola lais) version 1.0". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Ithaca, NY, USA: Cornell Lab of Ornithology. doi:10.2173/bow.waicis1.01. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
  3. ^ Krausová, Ladislava; Veselý, Petr; Syrová, Michaela; Antonová, Kateřina; Fišer, Ondřej; Chlumská, Vanda; Pátková, Markéta; Pužej, Šimon; Fuchs, Roman (2022-12-23). "Red‐backed shrike (Lanius collurio) versus common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus): An example of ineffective cuckoo–hawk mimicry". Ecology and Evolution. 12 (12): e9664. doi:10.1002/ece3.9664. ISSN 2045-7758. PMC 9789018. PMID 36582776. S2CID 255120648.


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