Wailing cisticola explained

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.^[1]

The appearance of their eggs varies widely; they can be white, pale blue, spotted, or streaked.^[2]

External links

• Wailing cisticola - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ryan . Peter . Dean . Ryan . 2006-01-01 . Wailing Cisticola (Cisticola lais) version 1.0 . del Hoyo . J. . Elliott . A. . Sargatal . J. . Christie . D.A. . de Juana . E. . Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive . Cornell Lab of Ornithology . Ithaca, NY, USA . 27 August 2017 . subscription . 10.2173/bow.waicis1.01.
2. 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 . . 12 . 12 . e9664 . 10.1002/ece3.9664 . free . 2045-7758 . 9789018 . 36582776 . 255120648.