Fan-tailed Grassbird

When to see the Fan-tailed Grassbird

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is December, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Fan-tailed Grassbird

The map shades 16 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Lesotho.

About the Fan-tailed Grassbird

The fan-tailed grassbird or broad-tailed warbler is an African species of Old World warbler in the family Locustellidae. The species is closely related to the broad-tailed grassbird of India, and is sometimes treated as the same species, although a 2018 study found that it and the broad-tailed grassbird were not closely related, with the Indian species being a sister of Chaetornis striata.

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Easily confused with

Middendorff's Grasshopper WarblerHelopsaltes ochotensisMiddendorff's grasshopper warbler is 15.5 cm (6.1 in) in length. Russet Bush WarblerLocustella mandelliThe russet bush warbler is a songbird species. SpinifexbirdPoodytes carteriIt has a rich brown cap, golden brown streaked wings, and a long tail.