Cricket Warbler (Spiloptila clamans)
About the Cricket Warbler
The cricket warbler (Spiloptila clamans), also known as cricket longtail, scaly longtail or cricket prinia, is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It belongs to the genus Spiloptila; it is often the only species included in the genus but sometimes the red-fronted prinia is placed there as well. The cricket warbler is a small, perky warbler with a long tail made up of twelve grey, black and white tipped feathers with the feathers getting longer from the outside to the centre, creating a graduated tail. It is pale buffy rufous on the upperparts, with black streaks on the crown and black tips to the primaries and upper wing coverts, a pale yellow rump, a white supercilium and whitish cream underparts. The male has a greyer cast across the nape. 9–10 cm in length.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 39 recordings for this species: 15 CC BY-NC-SA · 7 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in Morocco, Senegal in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Other birds you can hear here
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- Black-crowned Night HeronNycticorax nycticoraxrecording
- Black-crowned TchagraTchagra senegalusrecording
- Black-tailed GodwitLimosa limosarecording
- Black-winged StiltHimantopus himantopusrecording
- Common ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybitarecording
These are the birds recorded alongside it, not close relatives — the site holds no other member of its genus or family yet.