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Zitting Cisticola (Cisticola juncidis)Where and when to see it in the UK

Scarce migrant · reporting peaks January · Cisticolas and Allies · BOU category A

Records to 2026-08-16 · build 2026-08-31

Zitting Cisticola (Cisticola juncidis)
Morhaf kamal aljanee, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Too few records to rate squares by month. Each marked square has at least one record; the table below gives the count and years.

Zitting Cisticola: relative reporting rate by 10 km square, September

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (grid squares, place names from OS Open Names). Northern Ireland place names: OSNI Open Data, OGL v3.0. County and country boundaries: Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0. Coastline: Natural Earth. Bird records from the data partners listed here.

Zitting Cisticola has been recorded in 6 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (0%) in records to 2026. Scarce migrant in the UK. Reporting peaks in January.

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN Red List, LC)
View on the IUCN Red List

Records by 10 km square

SquareWhereRecordsYearsVerified
TM47Suffolk, England102025 to 2026unverified
TR34Kent, England12010unverified
TR36Kent, England192009unverified
TR16Kent, England12008unverified
SZ19Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, England372000unverified
SY66Dorset, England172000unverified

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