Middendorff's grasshopper warbler

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

Middendorff's grasshopper warbler
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Locustellidae
Genus: Helopsaltes
Species:
H. ochotensis
Binomial name
Helopsaltes ochotensis
Synonyms

Locustella ochotensis

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

Description

15.5 cm (6.1 in) length. Crown, nape, lores, eye-stripe greyish brown. Mantle browner and more olive. Supercilium pale creamy extending to ear coverts. Rump and uppertail coverts more yellowish or rufous brown. Graduated, white-tipped tail may appear rounded. Voice: Song; high-pitched, spaced chit, chit, precedes trilled trrrrrrrr-schoy-schoy-schoy, call; tluk, tluk,.... also a short song flight. Habitat: Forests near water and scrubwoods.[3]

References
  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Locustella ochotensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 234.
  3. A Field Guide to the Birds of Korea. 2005. ISBN 89-951415-3-0.
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