Gray's grasshopper warbler
| Gray's grasshopper warbler | |
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| Illustration by J. G. Keulemans (1881) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Locustellidae |
| Genus: | Helopsaltes |
| Species: | H. fasciolatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Helopsaltes fasciolatus (G. R. Gray, 1861)
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| Synonyms | |
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Locustella fasciolata | |
Gray's grasshopper warbler (Helopsaltes fasciolatus), also known as Gray's warbler, is a species of grass warbler in the family Locustellidae; it was formerly included in the "Old World warbler" assemblage.
The Sakhalin grasshopper warbler was formerly considered conspecific.
Distribution and habitat
[edit]This small passerine bird breeds in southern Siberia, northeastern China and Korea. It is migratory, wintering in southeast Asia. It is a species found in lowland and coastal regions, nesting in forests or thickets.
Description
[edit]This is the largest of all the Locustella warblers, approaching the size of the great reed warbler. The adult has an unstreaked olive-brown back, uniformly grey breast and buff underparts, with unmottled dull orange undertail coverts.
The song is a short phrase, loud and distinctive; nothing like the insect-like reeling of European Locustella species, and more musical than that of Pallas's grasshopper warbler.
References
[edit]- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Locustella fasciolata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
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