Cisticola melanurus (Cabanis, 1882)
Black-tailed cisticola, Slender-tailed cisticola
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Apalis melanura melanura (Cabanis, 1882); Cisticola melanura (Cabanis, 1882); Cisticola melanurus melanura (Cabanis, 1882); Dryodromas melanurus Cabanis, 1882
Conservation Status
Last record: 1972
Rediscovered in 2005
IUCN RedList status: Data Deficient
Distribution
Angola & DR Congo
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Cabanis. (1882). Orn.Centralbl. 7 no.11&12 p.91
Other references:
BirdLife International. 2016. Cisticola melanurus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22713459A94375723. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22713459A94375723.en. Downloaded on 13 February 2017.
Dean, W. R. J. 2000. The birds of Angola. British Ornithologists' Union, Tring, UK.
del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Christie, D. 2006. Handbook of the Birds of the World, vol. 11: Old World Flycatchers to Old World Warblers. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain.
Mills, M.S.L., Melo, M. and Vaz, A. 2011. Black-tailed Cisticola Cisticola melanurus in eastern Angola: behavioural notes and the first photographs and sound-recordings. Bulletin of the African Bird Club 18(2): 193-198.
Scheffers, Brett R., Yong, Ding Li, Harris, J. Berton C., Giam, Xingli and Sodhi, Navjot S. (2011). The world’s rediscovered species: back from the brink? PLoS ONE 6(7): e22531. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022531 [Supporting Information (Table S1)]
Sinclair, I.; Chamberlain, D.; Chamberlain, M.; vaz Pinto, P. 2007. Observations of three little-known bird species in northern Angola. Bulletin of the African Bird Club 14(1): 55-56.
Urban, E. K.; Fry, C. H.; Keith, S. 1997. The birds of Africa vol. V. Academic Press, London.