Sakhalin grasshopper warbler

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Sakhalin grasshopper warbler
from Hokkaido, Japan
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Locustellidae
Genus: Helopsaltes
Species:
H. amnicola
Binomial name
Helopsaltes amnicola
(Stepanyan, 1972)
Synonyms

Locustella amnicola

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

Distribution and habitat

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

Description

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The adult has an unstreaked olive-brown back, uniformly grey breast and buff underparts, with unmottled dull orange undertail 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

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