Red-faced cisticola

The red-faced cisticola (Cisticola erythrops) is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It is widely present across sub-Saharan Africa (rare in southern Africa). Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland and swamps.

Red-faced cisticola
Singing near the Crocodile River in Mpumalanga, South Africa
Song recorded in Limpopo, South Africa
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Cisticolidae
Genus:	Cisticola
Species:	C. erythrops
Binomial name
Cisticola erythrops (Hartlaub, 1857)

The race C. e. lepe, found in Angola and possibly the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is sometimes regarded as a separate species, the Lepe cisticola.

Gallery

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  Cisticola erythrops - MHNT
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  Cisticola erythrops sylvia - MHNT
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  Non-breeding adult at Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
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  In Cuanza Norte Province, northern Angola