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Cisticola fulvicapilla · Family Cisticolidae

Cisticola fulvicapilla

Family Cisticolidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Cisticolidae
GBIF occurrence records
184,652
Countries and territories with records
17
Neddicky
Derek Keats from Johannesburg, South Africa · Neddicky, or piping cisticola, Cisticola fulvicapilla at Pilanesberg National Park, Northwest Province, South Africa (17266691538).jpg · CC BY 2.0 · Derek Keats from Johannesburg, South Africa · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Unknown · Piping_Cisticola_(Cisticola_fulvicapilla)_(W1CDR0000367_BD18).ogg · CC BY 4.0 · Unknown · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 184,652 occurrence records from 17 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). South Africa accounts for 96.7% of the records; no other country or territory reaches 1%. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.45% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Cisticola fulvicapilla combines the genus name Cisticola with the species epithet fulvicapilla. 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 chiniana.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 154 species of the family Cisticolidae. This species ranks 11th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Cisticola juncidis. Its record count is 3.8 times the family average (48,797). The family Cisticolidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Cisticolidae

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