Winding Cisticola
Cisticola marginatus (Heuglin, 1869)
Cisticolidae — Cisticolas & Allies
Winding Cisticola, Cisticola marginatus, is a bird in the family Cisticolidae that breeds in western, central and interior eastern Africa. It is found across a scattered belt south of the Sahara and north of 11°S. Its natural home is tropical lowland grassland that is seasonally wet or flooded, together with swamps. The species includes several named subspecies, with forms recorded from Mauritania and Senegal through Ghana, Cameroon and Angola, from northern Nigeria to western Sudan, from southern Sudan and northern Uganda, and from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and north-eastern Zambia.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Cisticolidae — Cisticolas & Allies
- Breeding range
- Africa: w, c, interior e
