Species of bird
Cisticola galactotes
The rufous-winged cisticola (Cisticola galactotes ) is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae . It is found on the east coast of southern Africa.[ 1] [ 2]
Taxonomy
The rufous-winged cisticola has two subspecies :[ 3]
C. g. isodactylus Peters, W, 1868 from southern Malawi, south-eastern Zimbabwe and western Mozambique; and
C. g. galactotes (Temminck, 1821) from southern Mozambique and eastern South Africa.
This taxon was split from the winding cisticola by the IOC and HBW , as were the Luapula cisticola , coastal cisticola and Ethiopian cisticola . The Clements (2017) and Howard and Moore (2014) world lists consider these taxa as a single species, the winding cisticola C. galactotes (sensu lato).[ 4]
Distribution and habitat
It is found in Mozambique , Zimbabwe and South Africa .
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland and swamps .
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