Genus Locustella Phylum Chordata Rank Species | Scientific name Locustella ochotensis Higher classification Grass warbler Order Passerine | |
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Similar Bird, Gray's grasshopper warbler, Grass warbler, Styan's grasshopper warbler, Lanceolated warbler | ||
middendorff s grasshopper warbler
The Middendorff's grasshopper warbler (Locustella ochotensis) is a species of Old World warbler in the family Locustellidae. It is found in Brunei, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Russia, Taiwan, and the United States.
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The common name commemorates Alexander Theodor von Middendorff (1815–1894), a German–Russian naturalist who traveled extensively in Siberia.
1 middendorff s grasshopper warbler wild bird
Description
15.5 cm length. Crown, nape, lores, eye-stripe greyish brown. Mantle browner and more olive. Supercilium pale creamy extending to ear coverts. Rump and uppertail coverts more yellowish or rufous brown. Graduated, white-tipped tail may appear rounded. Voice: Song; high-pitched, spaced 'chit, chit', precedes trilled 'trrrrrrrr-schoy-schoy-schoy', call; 'tluk, tluk,....' also a short song flight. Habitat: Forests near water and scrubwoods.