Coastal cisticola | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Cisticolidae |
Genus: | Cisticola |
Species: | C. haematocephalus
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Binomial name | |
Cisticola haematocephalus Cabanis, 1868
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The coastal cisticola (Cisticola haematocephalus), also known as the umbabird, is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It is found on the coastal plain of East Africa. [1] [2]
Alternate common names are Mombasa black-backed cisticola. [3]
The coastal cisticola is monotypic. [4] This taxon was split from the winding cisticola by the IOC and HBW, as were the rufous-winged cisticola, Luapula cisticola and Ethiopian cisticola. The Clements (2017) and Howard and Moore (2014) world lists consider these taxa as a single species, the winding cisticola C. galactotes (sensu lato). [3]
This species is found on the coastal plain of East Africa between 5°N to 10°S (southern Somalia to north-eastern Tanzania). [2]
Its natural habitats are tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland and swamps.