Singing cisticola

{{Short description|Species of bird}}

{{Speciesbox

| name = Singing cisticola

| image = Cistícola cantor (Cisticola cantans), parque nacional de la Selva Impenetrable de Bwindi, Uganda, 2024-02-01, DD 84.jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=Cisticola cantans |volume=2016 |page=e.T22713279A94368749 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22713279A94368749.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}

| taxon = Cisticola cantans

| authority = (Heuglin, 1869)

| synonyms =

}}

The singing cisticola (Cisticola cantans) is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae.

It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

File:Cisticola cantans concolor 1869.jpg