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Marsh Warbler? Lake Annecy (1 Viewer)

Capercaillie71

Capercaillie71

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Can anyone confirm if this is a Marsh Warbler (Acrocephalus palustris) singing in this video? It was at Bout du Lac nature reserve at Lake Annecy, France the week before last. I have no previous experience of the species and my experience of singing Reed Warblers is limited to occasional encounters on holiday as neither species is regular where I live. However, this bird seems to lack the measured, repetitive phrases that I associate with reed warblers and seems to incorporate mimicry and fast trills etc.

https://youtu.be/mOQp1djRpZE
 
I'd say yes :t:

Definitely not Reed; my only caution is whether Melodious is possible (not a species I'm very familiar with!).
 
Nutcracker said:
I'd say yes :t:

Definitely not Reed; my only caution is whether Melodious is possible (not a species I'm very familiar with!).
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Thanks for that. My first thought on hearing this was also Melodious, but I should probably have said that I could see the bird singing and it was a brown, unstreaked Acrocephalus warbler, so definitely reed or marsh. It was also confusingly perched on the top of a phragmites reed stem, which marsh warblers are not supposed to do. However this was quite a small area of dry reedbed in a scrubby area, with quite a lot of other plants, such as meadowsweet, willowherb and bindweed growing among the reeds.
 
The song is rather slow for a Marsh Warbler. Blyth's Reed Warbler sings like a 'sleepy Marsh Warbler', but my experience with this species is limited to one singing bird long time ago. And it is of course not a typical breeding bird of France. So probably it's really just a sleepy Marsh Warbler;)
 
flownek said:
The song is rather slow for a Marsh Warbler. Blyth's Reed Warbler sings like a 'sleepy Marsh Warbler', but my experience with this species is limited to one singing bird long time ago. And it is of course not a typical breeding bird of France. So probably it's really just a sleepy Marsh Warbler;)
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Not Blyth`s but Marsh.
 
Capercaillie71 said:
It was also confusingly perched on the top of a phragmites reed stem, which marsh warblers are not supposed to do. However this was quite a small area of dry reedbed in a scrubby area, with quite a lot of other plants, such as meadowsweet, willowherb and bindweed growing among the reeds.
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They tend not to use extensive pure Phragmites, but when there's just a bit of it mixed in with other herbs like this, no problem :t:
 
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