Zitting cisticola
| Zitting cisticola | |
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| 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
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| Binomial name | |
| Cisticola juncidis (Rafinesque, 1810)
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| Range of C. juncidis Breeding Resident
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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.