🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Siffling Cisticola live?

Cisticola brachypterus has 10,511 records in 35 countries and territories, from 1876 to 2026. Most records come from Kenya.

AnimaliaChordataAvesPasseriformesCisticolidaeCisticola

When it is recorded

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Peak month: November. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Kenya 1,893
Nigeria 1,814
Uganda 1,390
Zambia 1,024
Ghana 1,007
Mozambique 404
Congo 396
DR Congo 347
Angola 321
Tanzania 318
Rwanda 250
Liberia 246
Gambia 173
Zimbabwe 166
Benin 142
Malawi 136
Ethiopia 109
Cameroon 77
CΓ΄te d'Ivoire 76
Gabon 59
Senegal 30
Sierra Leone 26
Guinea 23
Burundi 21
Togo 19
Central African Republic 13
Guinea-Bissau 8
Mali 8
Burkina Faso 6
South Sudan 4
Niger 1
Sudan 1
Somalia 1
Chad 1
South Africa 1

Related animals

Others in the family Cisticolidae.

Common Tailorbird
Common Tailorbird
1,168,030 records
Zitting Cisticola
Zitting Cisticola
1,167,063 records
Plain Prinia
Plain Prinia
767,298 records
Ashy Prinia
Ashy Prinia
628,602 records
Tawny-flanked Prinia
Tawny-flanked Prinia
307,385 records
Golden-headed Cisticola
305,492 records
Yellow-bellied Prinia
Yellow-bellied Prinia
303,778 records
Green-backed Camaroptera
Green-backed Camaroptera
195,326 records
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months β€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map β€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.