Editing Cisticola (section)

==List of species==
The genus contains 53 species:<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela C. Rasmussen | date=August 2024 | title=Grassbirds, Donacobius, tetrakas, cisticolas, allies | work=IOC World Bird List Version 14.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/grassbirds/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=10 November 2024}}</ref>

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! Image !!  Common Name !! Scientific Name !! Distribution
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|[[File:Red-faced Cisticola (Cisticola erythrops).jpg|120px]] || [[Red-faced cisticola]] ||''Cisticola erythrops''|| Sub-Saharan Africa (except southern and Horn of Africa)
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|[[File:Cistícola cantor (Cisticola cantans), parque nacional de la Selva Impenetrable de Bwindi, Uganda, 2024-02-01, DD 84.jpg|120px]] || [[Singing cisticola]] ||''Cisticola cantans''|| Sub-Saharan Africa
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|[[File:Whistling Cisticola - Ghana S4E2445 (16700461533) (cropped).jpg|120px]] || [[Whistling cisticola]] ||''Cisticola lateralis''|| African tropical rainforest
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|[[File:Trilling Cisticola, Sakania, DR Congo (16421861459).jpg|120px]] || [[Trilling cisticola]] ||''Cisticola woosnami''|| Zambia, Tanzania, DR Congo, western Kenya
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|[[File:Cisticola anonymus 221640.jpg|120px]] || [[Chattering cisticola]] ||''Cisticola anonymus''|| central Africa
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|[[File:Bubbling Cisticola 110ND500 DSC7837.jpg|120px]] || [[Bubbling cisticola]] ||''Cisticola bulliens''|| western Angola
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|[[File:Hunter‘sCisticola.jpg|120px]] || [[Hunter's cisticola]] ||''Cisticola hunteri''|| Kenya and northern Tanzania
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|[[File:Chubbs cisticola.jpg|120px]] || [[Chubb's cisticola]] ||''Cisticola chubbi''|| Western High Plateau and Albertine rift montane forests
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| - || [[Kilombero cisticola]] ||''Cisticola bakerorum''|| Tanzania
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| - || [[Black-lored cisticola]] ||''Cisticola nigriloris''|| Tanzania
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|[[File:Rock-loving Cisticola (Cisticola aberrans minor).jpg|120px]] || [[Rock-loving cisticola]] ||''Cisticola aberrans''|| Sub-Saharan Africa
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| - || [[Huambo cisticola]] ||''Cisticola bailunduensis''|| Angola 
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|[[File:Rattling cisticola, Cisticola chiniana, at Marakele National Park, Limpopo, South Africa - 23880504580.jpg|120px]] || [[Rattling cisticola]] ||''Cisticola chiniana''|| Sub-Saharan Africa (except western and southern Africa)
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| - || [[Boran cisticola]] ||''Cisticola bodessa''|| Eritrea, Ethiopia and Kenya
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|[[File:Churring Cisticola - Malawi S4E2167 (16700461993).jpg|120px]] || [[Churring cisticola]] ||''Cisticola njombe''|| Tanzania and northern Malawi
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|[[File:Amboseli,_Ashy_Cisticola.jpg|120px]] || [[Ashy cisticola]] ||''Cisticola cinereolus''|| East Africa
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| - || [[Tana River cisticola]] ||''Cisticola restrictus''|| Kenya
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|[[File:Hunter's Cisticola - KenyaNH8O2433 (16698263634).jpg|120px]] || [[Tinkling cisticola]] ||''Cisticola rufilatus''|| central-southern Africa
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|[[File:Cisticola subruficapillus -Namaqua National Park, Northern Cape, South Africa-6.jpg|120px]] || [[Grey-backed cisticola]] ||''Cisticola subruficapilla''|| Namibia and South Africa
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|[[File:Cisticola lais -Cedara, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa-8.jpg|120px]] || [[Wailing cisticola]] ||''Cisticola lais''|| southern and eastern Afromontane
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| - || [[Lynes's cisticola]] ||''Cisticola distinctus''|| Kenya
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|[[File:Cisticola galactotes subsp isodactylus, Pungwe-vloedvlakte, Birding Weto, a.jpg|120px]] || [[Rufous-winged cisticola]] ||''Cisticola galactotes''|| southeastern Africa
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|[[File:Cisticola marginatus amphilectus, Kuito, Birding Weto, a.jpg|120px]] || [[Winding cisticola]] ||''Cisticola marginatus''|| north/central Sub-Saharan Africa
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| - || [[Coastal cisticola]] ||''Cisticola haematocephalus''|| coastal East Africa
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| - || [[White-tailed cisticola]] ||''Cisticola anderseni''|| Tanzania
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| - || [[Ethiopian cisticola]] ||''Cisticola lugubris''|| Ethiopia
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|[[File:Luapula Cisticola.jpg|120px]] || [[Luapula cisticola]] ||''Cisticola luapula''|| Zambia and adjacent areas
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|[[File:Cisticola pipiens, Kateque, Birding Weto, a.jpg|120px]] || [[Chirping cisticola]] ||''Cisticola pipiens''|| Zambia, Angola and southern DR Congo
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| - || [[Carruthers's cisticola]] ||''Cisticola carruthersi''|| Rwenzori and northern Lake Victoria region
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|[[File:Levaillant's Cisticola - South Africa S4E7688 (17294752566).jpg|120px]] || [[Levaillant's cisticola]] ||''Cisticola tinniens''|| southern Sub-Saharan Africa
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|[[File:Stout Cisticola (cropped).jpg|120px]] || [[Stout cisticola]] ||''Cisticola robustus''|| western and eastern Afromontane
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|[[File:Aberdare Cisticola - Aberdares - Kenya CD5A1890.jpg|120px]] || [[Aberdare cisticola]] ||''Cisticola aberdare''|| Kenya
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|[[File:Croaking cisticola (Cisticola natalensis) (cropped).jpg|120px]] || [[Croaking cisticola]] ||''Cisticola natalensis''|| Sub-Saharan Africa
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|[[File:Red-pate Cisticola (Cisticola ruficeps).jpg|120px]] || [[Red-pate cisticola]] ||''Cisticola ruficeps''|| Lake Chad to Eritrea and northern Uganda
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|[[File:Dorst's Cisticola (Cisticola guinea).jpg|120px]] || [[Dorst's cisticola]] ||''Cisticola guinea''|| western Africa
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|[[File:Tiny Cisticola JM.jpg|120px]] || [[Tiny cisticola]] ||''Cisticola nana''|| East Africa
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| - || [[Short-winged cisticola]] ||''Cisticola brachypterus''|| Sub-Saharan Africa (except southern Africa)
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| - || [[Rufous cisticola]] ||''Cisticola rufus''|| western Africa
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|[[File:Foxy Cisticola - Murchison Falls NP Uganda 06 5128 (17133166820).jpg|120px]] || [[Foxy cisticola]] ||''Cisticola troglodytes''|| western CAR to Ethiopia
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|[[File:Neddicky (Cisticola fulvicapilla), Pilanesberg National Park, 2014.jpg|120px]] || [[Neddicky]] ||''Cisticola fulvicapilla''|| southern half of Sub-Saharan Africa
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|[[File:Tabora ( Long-tailed ) Cisticola - Uganda H8O2802 (17294759186).jpg|120px]] || [[Long-tailed cisticola]] ||''Cisticola angusticauda''|| Zambia and Tanzania
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|[[File:Cisticola melanurus, Cuanavale-rivier, a (cropped).jpg|120px]] || [[Black-tailed cisticola]] ||''Cisticola melanurus''|| northern Angola and south-western DRC
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|[[File:Zitting cisticola 2024 04 19 (cropped).jpg|120px]] || [[Zitting cisticola]] ||''Cisticola juncidis''|| Afrotropics, southern Palearctic and northern Australia
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| - || [[Socotra cisticola]] ||''Cisticola haesitatus''|| Socotra
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|[[File:Madagascar Cisticola - Ankarafantsika - Madagascar S4E9918 (15297586322).jpg|120px]] || [[Madagascar cisticola]] ||''Cisticola cherina''|| Seychelles and Madagascar
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|[[File:Desert Cisticola (Cisticola aridulus).jpg|120px]] || [[Desert cisticola]] ||''Cisticola aridulus''|| Arid regions of Sub-Saharan Africa
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|[[File:Cloud cisticola, Cisticola textrix at Ezemvelo Nature Reserve, Gauteng, South Africa. (44048411120).jpg|120px]] || [[Cloud cisticola]] ||''Cisticola textrix''|| Angola, western Zambia and southern Africa
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|[[File:Black-backed Cisticola male JM.jpg|120px]] || [[Black-backed cisticola]] ||''Cisticola eximius''|| sparsely present across the [[Sudan (region)]], the Congo and western Kenya
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|[[File:Cisticola dambo, Cuanavale-rivier, Birding Weto, a.jpg|120px]] || [[Dambo cisticola]] ||''Cisticola dambo''|| the Congo, southern DRC, northern Angola and Zambia
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|[[File:Pectoral patch cisticola2.jpg|120px]] || [[Pectoral-patch cisticola]] ||''Cisticola brunnescens''|| [[Adamawa Massif]], Gabon, the Congo and highlands of East Africa
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|[[File:Cisticola Pale-crowned 2011 12 13 7324 Cedara (cropped).jpg|120px]] || [[Pale-crowned cisticola]] ||''Cisticola cinnamomeus''|| the Congo, Tanzania to eastern South Africa
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|[[File:Wing-snapping cisticola (Cisticola ayresii), also known as Ayres' cisticola, at Khama Rhino Sancturary in Botswana. (30941303887).jpg|120px]] || [[Wing-snapping cisticola]] ||''Cisticola ayresii''|| highlands of southern Africa
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|[[File:Cisticola exilis - Cornwallis Rd.jpg|120px]] || [[Golden-headed cisticola]] ||''Cisticola exilis''|| Indomalaya and western Oceania
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