Cisticolas & Allies
Red-pate Cisticola
Cisticola ruficeps
The Red-pate Cisticola (Cisticola ruficeps) is a 9.7 g grassland bird that eats mostly insects and other invertebrates. It stays put all year.
- Family
- Cisticolas & Allies
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Weight
- 9.7 g
- Habitat
- Grassland
- Diet
- Invertebrates
- Migration
- Resident
- Countries recorded
- 7
Recorded in Uganda, Nigeria, Sudan, Cameroon, Chad, Ethiopia, S. Sudan.
Where to see it: Waza NP (Cameroon); Zakouma NP (Chad); PN Zakouma (Salamat Part) (Chad); Lake Awassa · United Africa Shebelle Hotel area (Ethiopia).
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