Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Cisticolidae > Cisticola > Cisticola pipiensCisticola pipiens (Chirping Cisticola)The chirping cisticola (Cisticola pipiens) is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland and swamps. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 4.22595 EDGE Score: 1.65364 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 13.5 grams | | Birth Weight [2] | 1.4 grams |  | | Diet [3] | Carnivore (Invertebrates) | | Diet - Invertibrates [3] | 100 % | | Forages - Understory [3] | 100 % | | | Clutch Size [5] | 4 | | Incubation [4] | 14 days | | Mating Display [2] | Ground and non-acrobatic aerial display |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
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Species |
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Climate |
Land
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Albertine Rift montane forests |
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi,Tanzania |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Angolan Miombo woodlands |
Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Angolan montane forest-grassland mosaic |
Angola |
Afrotropic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Central Zambezian Miombo woodlands |
Tanzania, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Zambia, Malawi |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands |
Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, South Africa |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Southern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic |
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Western Congolian forest-savanna mosaic |
Gabon, Congo, Democratic Rep of the Congo, Angola |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Western Zambezian grasslands |
Angola, Zambia |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands |
Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Zambezian Cryptosepalum dry forests |
Zambia |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Zambezian flooded grasslands |
Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia |
Afrotropic |
Flooded Grasslands and Savannas |
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IUCN Category |
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Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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West Caprivi Game Reserve Game Park |
VI |
1448182 |
Namibia |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Bangweulu swamps |
Zambia |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Barotse flood-plain |
Zambia |
A1, A4i |
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Caconda |
Angola |
A3 |
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Calandula (Quedas de Calandula) |
Angola |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Chimfunshi |
Zambia |
A3 |
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Chitunta plain |
Zambia |
A1, A3 |
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Chobe National Park |
Botswana |
A3, A4i |
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Eastern Caprivi wetlands |
Namibia |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Imanda |
Zambia |
A3 |
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Kafue National Park |
Zambia |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4ii |
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Kalungwishi |
Zambia |
A1, A3 |
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Kasanka National Park |
Zambia |
A1, A3 |
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Kundelungu National Park |
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the |
A1, A3 |
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Linyanti swamp/Chobe river |
Botswana |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Liuwa Plain National Park |
Zambia |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Luapula mouth |
Zambia |
A1, A3 |
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Mahango Game Reserve and Kavango river |
Namibia |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Marungu highlands |
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the |
A3 |
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Minyanya Plain |
Zambia |
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Mutinondo Wilderness |
Zambia |
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Mweru Wantipa National Park |
Zambia |
A1, A3, A4i |
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North Swaka |
Zambia |
A3 |
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Okavango Delta |
Botswana |
A1, A3, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Rusizi National Park |
Burundi |
A1, A4i |
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Saisi river |
Zambia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Shiwa Ng'andu |
Zambia |
A1, A3 |
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Sioma Ngwezi National Park |
Zambia |
A3 |
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Sumbu National Park and Tondwa GMA |
Zambia |
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Ufipa plateau |
Tanzania |
A2, A3 |
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Upemba National Park |
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the |
A1, A2, A3 |
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West Lunga National Park and Lukwakwa |
Zambia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Eastern Afromontane |
Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 2Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605 ♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 4del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ♦ 5Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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