Winding Cisticola Cisticola marginatus
(aka Cisticola galactotes which now refers to Rufous-winged Cisticola previously regarded as conspecific)
Winding Cisticola, Tono Dam, Ghana, June 2011 - click for larger image

Tono Dam, Ghana
June 2011

The Winding Cisticola is distributed in much of tropical Africa where the habitat is suitable. Its preferred habitat is rank grass and sedge in marshes and other wet areas. For a distribution map see Birdlife International.

Winding Cisticola, Tono Dam, Ghana, June 2011 - click for larger image It is grey-brown with a streaked back a rufous forehead and rufous edges to the wing feathers.

Its call is a dry trill reminiscent of an insect.

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