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Subspecies australis
Photo by Neil Fifer
Sydney, Australia, September,2003

Acrocephalus australis

[edit] Identification

16cm. Brown and buff.

[edit] Distribution

Ranges in Indonesia (Greater and Lesser Sundas), southeast Borneo, Philippines, throughout Australia including Tasmania, and New Guinea.

[edit] Taxonomy

A recent split from Clamorous Reed-Warbler

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

Polytypic, there are four subspecies:

• A. a. toxopei:

• New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago and Solomon Islands

• A. a. carterae:

• North-western Australia

• A. a. australis:

• Eastern half of Australia; winters to north

• A. a. gouldi:

• South-western Western Australia (Pilbara to Esperance); winters to north

Photo by Wetlands Wanderer
Edithvale, Victoria, Australia, May 2008

[edit] Habitat

Reed beds and dense vegetation on the shores of lakes, rivers and creeks.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The diet includes insects.

[edit] Breeding

It builds a deep cup nest from woven reeds, lined with fine dry grass and feathers, in among dense reeds. The female incubates the eggs.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Wikipedia
3. Birds in Backyards
4. BF Member observations

• List of references

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