ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the birds comes under the family Sylviidae such as: Warblers, Apalis, Cisticolas, Eremomelas, Prinias, Crombecs, Cinnamon bracken warbler, Aberdare cisticola, African reed warbler, Ashy cisticola, Banded prinia, Barred warbler, Basra reed warbler, Blackcap, Black-collared apalis, Black-faced rufous warbler, Black-headed apalis, Black-throated apalis. The family also included: Boran cisticola, Brown woodland warbler, Buff-bellied warbler, Chestnut-throated apalis, Chiffchaff, Chubb's cisticola, Croaking cisticola, Desert cisticola, Fan-tailed warbler, Garden warbler, Great reed warbler, Greater swamp warbler, Grey apalis, Grey wren warbler, Icterine warbler, Lesser swamp warbler and others. Wintering Sedge Warblers appear in Dec-Jan, and reside in large numbers in dense waterside vegetation around L Victoria and the higher altitude rift valley lakes, and up to 2400 m on dams in the W and C highlands. Britton tentatively ascribed local scarcity around L Kanyaboli 48C to competition with other small Afrotropical warblers, though the African Reed is in fact the smallest species present, and ought thus to be ecologically segregated.
