Zitting cisticola

Zitting cisticola
C. j. cisticola (western group) in Île d'Aix, Charente-Maritime, France.
C. j. cursitans (eastern group) in Bhigwan, Maharashtra, India.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Cisticolidae
Genus: Cisticola
Species:
C. juncidis
Binomial name
Cisticola juncidis
(Rafinesque, 1810)
Range of C. juncidis
  Breeding
  Resident

The zitting cisticola, formerly also fan-tailed warbler or streaked fantail warbler (Cisticola juncidis) is a widely distributed Old World warbler in the family Cisticolidae, whose breeding range includes western and southern Europe, Africa outside the deserts and rainforest, and southern Asia down to northern Australia. A small bird found mainly in grasslands, it is best identified by its rufous rump; in addition it lacks any gold on the collar and the brownish tail is tipped with white. During the breeding season males have a zigzagging flight display accompanied by regular "zit" calls that give it its English name. They build their pouch nest suspended within a clump of grass.