Red-faced cisticola
Singing near the Crocodile River in Mpumalanga, South Africa
Song recorded in Limpopo, South Africa
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Cisticolidae
Genus:	Cisticola
Species:	C. erythrops
Binomial name
Cisticola erythrops (Hartlaub, 1857)

The red-faced cisticola (Cisticola erythrops) is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It is widely present across sub-Saharan Africa (rare in southern Africa). Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland and swamps.

The race C. e. lepe, found in Angola and possibly the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is sometimes regarded as a separate species, the Lepe cisticola.

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  Cisticola erythrops - MHNT
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  Cisticola erythrops sylvia - MHNT
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  Non-breeding adult at Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
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  In Cuanza Norte Province, northern Angola

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