{{Short description|Species of bird}} {{Speciesbox | name = Winding cisticola | image = Cisticola marginatus amphilectus, Kuito, Birding Weto, a.jpg | image_caption = ''Cisticola marginatus amphilectus'' in Angola | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name=IUCN>BirdLife International 2017. Cisticola marginatus (amended version of 2016 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T103776094A118723725. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T103776094A118723725.en. Downloaded on 19 August 2019.</ref> | taxon = Cisticola marginatus | authority = (Heuglin, 1869) | synonyms = }}
The '''winding cisticola''' ('''''Cisticola marginatus''''') is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It has a scattered distribution across Africa south of the Sahara, and north of 11°S.
==Taxonomy== The winding cisticola has several subspecies:<ref name="Gill&Donsker2017">{{cite web|last1=Gill|first1=F.|last2=Donsker|first2=D.|title=IOC World Bird List |url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/new/bow/grassbirds/|accessdate=30 October 2020 |publisher=International Ornithological Union}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Ryan|first1=Peter|editor1-last=del Hoyo|editor1-first=J.|editor2-last=Elliott|editor2-first=A.|editor3-last=Sargatal|editor3-first=J.|editor4-last=Christie|editor4-first=D.A.|editor5-last=de Juana|editor5-first=E.|title=Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive|date=2017|publisher=Lynx Edicions|location=Barcelona|url=http://www.hbw.com/node/58622|accessdate=21 August 2017|language=en|chapter=Winding Cisticola (Cisticola marginatus)}}</ref><ref name=avibase>{{avibase|1DA06308|Cisticola marginatus}}</ref> * ''C. m. amphilectus'' <small>Reichenow, 1875</small> Mauritania and Senegal to Ghana, south-western Cameroon and north-western Angola * ''C. m. zalingei'' <small>Lynes, 1930</small> northern Nigeria to western Sudan * ''C. m. marginatus'' <small>(Heuglin, 1869)</small> southern Sudan and northern Uganda * ''C. m. nyansae'' <small>Neumann, 1905</small> central DRCongo to Uganda and Kenya * ''C. m. suahelicus'' <small>Neumann, 1905</small> south-eastern DRCongo, Tanzania and north-eastern Zambia
The Clements list (2017) and the Howard and Moore list (2014) lump the rufous-winged cisticola, Luapula cisticola, coastal cisticola and Ethiopian cisticola with the above subspecies as the '''winding cisticola ''Cisticola galactotes'' (sensu lato)'''.<ref name=avibase/> The Clements list (2017) recognizes 11 subspecies.<ref>{{cite web|title=Clements Checklist|url=https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/|website=www.birds.cornell.edu|accessdate=21 August 2017|language=en}}</ref> ==Habitat==
Its natural habitats are tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland and swamps.
==Gallery== <gallery> Cisticola marginatus 1869.jpg|''Cisticola marginatus'' illustrated by Keulemans Cisticola marginatus amphilectus MHNT.jpg|{{center|Eggs of ''Cisticola marginatus amphilectus''}} Image:Winding_cisticola.png|Lake Navasha Country Club - Kenya </gallery>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Commonscat-inline|Cisticola marginatus|''Cisticola marginatus''}} *{{Wikispecies-inline|Cisticola marginatus|''Cisticola marginatus''}}
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