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Rattling cisticola
Cisticola chiniana · Family Cisticolidae
Cisticola chiniana
Family Cisticolidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Cisticolidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 195,691
- Countries and territories with records
- 25
About this species
This species has 195,691 occurrence records from 25 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (64%), Kenya (11.1%), Tanzania (5.6%), Namibia (4%) and Uganda (3.3%); together they account for 88% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.31% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Cisticola chiniana combines the genus name Cisticola with the species epithet chiniana. The Warbla app catalog lists 49 species of the genus Cisticola; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Cisticola juncidis, Cisticola exilis and Cisticola fulvicapilla.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 154 species of the family Cisticolidae. This species ranks 9th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Cisticola juncidis. Its record count is 4 times the family average (48,797). The family Cisticolidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.