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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.
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When to see the Middendorff's Grasshopper Warbler
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Middendorff's Grasshopper Warbler
The map shades 8 countries 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.
Recorded as a rare visitor in United States, Australia.
About the Middendorff's Grasshopper Warbler
Middendorff's grasshopper warbler 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.
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Easily confused with
Gray's Grasshopper WarblerHelopsaltes fasciolatusThe adult has an unstreaked olive-brown back, uniformly grey breast and buff underparts, with unmottled dull orange undertail coverts.
Marsh GrassbirdHelopsaltes pryeriThe marsh grassbird, also known as the Japanese swamp warbler, is a species of Old World warbler in the family Locustellidae.
Sakhalin Grasshopper WarblerHelopsaltes amnicolaThe adult has an unstreaked olive-brown back, uniformly grey breast and buff underparts, with unmottled dull orange undertail coverts.
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