Tours where you can spot this bird
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Dorst's Cisticola
Cisticola guinea Lynes, 1930
Cisticolidae — Cisticolas & Allies
Dorst's Cisticola, Cisticola guinea, is a passerine of the Cisticolidae found in Africa from Gambia and Senegal east to Togo, central Nigeria and northern Cameroon. It breeds in dry savanna. The bird was first described by Lynes in 1930. It is a little-known species whose taxonomic history has been unsettled, and it was once treated under the name dorsti. It is also linked with the name guinea, which is now the accepted scientific name.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Cisticolidae — Cisticolas & Allies
- Breeding range
- Africa: Gambia and Senegal to Togo, c Nigeria and n Cameroon
