Biology:Middendorff's grasshopper warbler

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Short description: Species of bird

Middendorff's grasshopper warbler
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In Hokkaido, Japan
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Locustellidae
Genus: Helopsaltes
Species:
H. ochotensis
Binomial name
Helopsaltes ochotensis
(Middendorff, 1853)
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Distribution of Middendorff's grasshopper warbler
  Breeding
  Non-breeding
Synonyms

Locustella ochotensis

The Middendorff's grasshopper warbler (Helopsaltes ochotensis) is a species of Old World warbler in the family Locustellidae. It breeds in eastern Siberia to northern Japan , Kamchatka Peninsula and northern Kuril Islands. It winters in the Philippines , Borneo and Sulawesi and in small numbers in China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan and the U.S.A.

The common name commemorates Alexander Theodor von Middendorff (1815–1894), a German–Russian naturalist who traveled extensively in Siberia.[2]

Description

Middendorff's grasshopper warbler is 15.5 cm (6.1 in) in length. The crown, nape, lores and eye-stripe are greyish brown. The mantle is browner and more olive. The supercilium is pale creamy, extending to the ear coverts. The rump and uppertail coverts are more yellowish or rufous brown. The graduated, white-tipped tail may appear rounded. Its song is a high-pitched, spaced chit, chit, which precedes a trilled trrrrrrrr-schoy-schoy-schoy, call; tluk, tluk,...; it also performs a short song flight. Its habitat is forests near water and scrubwoods.[3]

References

  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Helopsaltes ochotensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22714669A94423719. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22714669A94423719.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22714669/94423719. Retrieved 12 November 2021. 
  2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 234. 
  3. Lee, Woo-Shin (2005). A Field Guide to the Birds of Korea. ISBN 89-951415-3-0. 

Wikidata ☰ Q1585356 entry