Shai Hills, Ghana
May 2011

The Short-winged Cisticola is distributed throughout much of tropical Africa where it is found in wooded grassland especially where there are dead trees and termite mounds. There is a distribution map at Birdlife International.

It forages low down for insects including caterpillars, termites, grasshoppers and beetles but flies to trees or bushes when disturbed.

The song is a series of 2 to 3 high-pitched notes falling in pitch and repeated continuously