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Singing Cisticola (Cisticola cantans)

Singing Cisticola
Photo: Diego Delso via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Singing Cisticola

The singing cisticola (Cisticola cantans) is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It is native to northern and eastern sub-Saharan Africa. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. Singing cisticola - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.

Source: Singing cisticola on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

A real field recording of the Singing Cisticola. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.

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Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.

Call (1:49) via xeno-canto.org/366835, licensed CC BY-SA — free for commercial use.

1 recording on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Senegal and elsewhere · xeno-canto lists 121 recordings for this species in total.

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