Zitting Cisticola

The zitting cisticola, formerly also the fan-tailed warbler, is a widely distributed Old World warbler breeding in western and southern Europe, Africa outside the deserts and rainforest, and southern Asia down to northern Australia. In the breeding season males make a zigzagging flight display with regular zit calls, giving the species its name (Wikipedia, general species account). in addition it lacks any gold on the collar and the brownish tail is tipped with white. (Wikipedia, general species account).

It is a small bird found mainly in grasslands, best identified by its rufous rump, with no gold on the collar and a brownish tail tipped white. It builds a pouch nest suspended within a clump of grass. Seventeen subspecies are accepted, in two groups separated by a deep genetic divide that matches the gap in range between western Iran and Pakistan (Wikipedia, general species account). The zitting cisticola, formerly also fan-tailed warbler or streaked fantail warbler (Cisticola juncidis), is a widely distributed Old World warbler in the family Cisticolidae, whose breeding range includes western and southern Europe, Africa outside the deserts and rainforest, and southern Asia down to northern Australia. (Wikipedia, general species account).