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Sakhalin grasshopper warbler

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Kingdom
  
Family
  
Genus
  
Grass warbler

Order
  
Passerine

Class
  
Aves

Phylum
  
Chordata

Rank
  
Species

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Similar
  
Grass warbler, Passerine, West Himalayan bush war, Gray's grasshopper warbler, Long‑tailed bush warbler

Sakhalin grasshopper warbler (Locustella amnicola), is a species of grass warbler in the family Locustellidae; it was formerly included in the "Old World warbler" assemblage.

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Distribution and habitat

This small passerine bird breeds from Sakhalin island, the southern Kuril Islands and Hokkaido in Japan. It is a species found in lowland and coastal regions, nesting in forests or thickets.

Description

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 under tail-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

Sakhalin grasshopper warbler Wikipedia


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