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WetlandCup nestSmall · 24 g
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This species has the upper plumage and visible portions of wings and tail olive-brown while the underside is pale creamy with the underwing and axillaries paler. The length is about 5 in (130 mm) with the tail being 2.3 in (58 mm) and the wing 2.4 in (61 mm) long. The tarsus is 0.85 in (22 mm) while the bill from gape is 0.8 in (20 mm). The first primary measures 0.35 in (8.9 mm) while the second is intermediate in length between the ninth and tenth. The closed tail appears graduated with the difference between the longest and shortest feathers being 0.4 in (10 mm).
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When to see the Large-billed Reed Warbler
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 5 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is June, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Large-billed Reed Warbler
The map shades 1 country with regular records, and 2 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.
About the Large-billed Reed Warbler
The large-billed reed warbler is an Old World warbler in the genus Acrocephalus. The species has been dubbed as "the world's least known bird". It was known from a single specimen collected in India in 1867 and rediscovered in the wild in Thailand in 2006. The identity of the bird caught in Thailand was established by matching DNA sequences extracted from feathers; the bird was released. After the rediscovery in the wild a second specimen was discovered amid Acrocephalus dumetorum specimens in the collections of the Natural History Museum at Tring. A breeding area was found in Afghanistan in 2009 and studies in 2011 pointed to its breeding in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan.
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Easily confused with
Pitcairn Reed WarblerAcrocephalus vaughaniThe Pitcairn reed warbler is a songbird in the genus Acrocephalus.
Henderson Reed WarblerAcrocephalus taitiThe Henderson reed warbler is a large, short-billed warbler, with an average length of 17 cm (6.7 in).
MillerbirdAcrocephalus familiarisA small warbler that occurs only on Nīhoa and Laysan in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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