Wailing cisticola

Wailing cisticola
	In KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
	Song recorded in Royal Natal National Park, South Africa
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Cisticolidae
Genus:	Cisticola
Species:	C. lais
Binomial name
	Cisticola lais; (Hartlaub & Finsch, 1870)

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.^[2]

The appearance of their eggs varies widely; they can be white, pale blue, spotted, or streaked.^[3]

References

^ BirdLife International (2016). "Cisticola lais". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22713383A94372687. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22713383A94372687.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
^ Ryan, Peter; Dean, Ryan (2006-01-01). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Wailing Cisticola (Cisticola lais) version 1.0". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Ithaca, NY, USA: Cornell Lab of Ornithology. doi:10.2173/bow.waicis1.01. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
^ 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". Ecology and Evolution. 12 (12): e9664. doi:10.1002/ece3.9664. ISSN 2045-7758. PMC 9789018. PMID 36582776. S2CID 255120648.

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