Lanceolated Warbler - BirdForum Opus

Photo by orniodesigns
South Eastern Finland, mid-summer

Locustella lanceolata

Identification

• Streaked brown back
• Whitish grey underparts
• Yellowish undertail coverts with a variable amount of spots
• The sexes are alike
  

Young birds are yellower below

Similar Species

exhausted on migration
Photo by Mark Bruce
Kenting, Taiwan

Grasshopper Warbler:
Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler:

Distribution

Eastern Palearctic (Russia to Japan); winters to southern Asia, Greater Sundas and Philippines.

Vagrants regular in the British Isles (mostly Shetland) in the Autumn.

Taxonomy

Monotypic^[1]

Subspecies hendersonii is not recognised by all authorities^[2]

Habitat

Breeds in the taiga; swampy open marshes with shrubby vegetation and rank undergrowth.

Behaviour

Breeding

A ground nester, they use a tussock to conceal the nest; usual clutch size is five.

Diet

Diet includes insects.

Vocalisation

Call: chick
Song: A reel which is faster and higher pitched than that of the Grasshopper Warbler

References

1. Clements, JF. 2010. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2010. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/Clements%206.5.xls/view
2. Birdguides
3. Collins Bird Guide ISBN 0 00 219728 6
4. Wikipedia

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Lanceolated Warbler. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 4 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Lanceolated_Warbler

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