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Fan tailed grassbird

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Genus
  
Schoenicola

Phylum
  
Chordata

Rank
  
Species

Family
  
Locustellidae

Scientific name
  
Schoenicola brevirostris

Higher classification
  
Schoenicola

Order
  
Passerine

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Similar
  
Schoenicola, Bangwa forest warbler, Black‑necked eremomela, Kretschmer's longbill, Long‑tailed bush warbler

The fan-tailed grassbird or broad-tailed warbler (Schoenicola brevirostris) is a species of Old World warbler in the Locustellidae family. It is found in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland and swamps.

References

Fan-tailed grassbird Wikipedia