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WetlandCup nestTiny · 11 g
What the Moustached Warbler sounds like
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The moustached warbler is 12–13 cm (4.7–5.1 in) long, slightly smaller than the similar sedge warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus). The adult has a finely streaked brown back and white underparts. The forehead is flattened, there is a prominent whitish supercilium, grey ear coverts, and the bill is strong and pointed. The sexes are identical, as with most warblers, but young birds are more heavily streaked and have markings on the breast. The song is fast and similar to the sedge warbler and reed warbler, with some mimicry and typically acrocephaline whistles added.
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When to see the Moustached Warbler
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Moustached Warbler
The map shades 50 countries with regular records, and 10 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 Germany, Portugal, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Luxembourg, Algeria, Libya, Nepal, North Macedonia.
About the Moustached Warbler
The moustached warbler is an Old World warbler in the genus Acrocephalus. It breeds in southern Europe and southern temperate Asia with a few breeding in north-west Africa. It is partially migratory. South-west European birds are resident, south-east European birds winter in the Mediterranean breeding range, and the Asiatic race migrates to Arabia, India and Pakistan.
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Easily confused with
Paddyfield WarblerAcrocephalus agricolaThe paddyfield warbler is a species of marsh warbler.
Black-browed Reed WarblerAcrocephalus bistrigicepsThe black-browed reed warbler is a marsh-warbler in the family Acrocephalidae.
Oriental Reed WarblerAcrocephalus orientalisIt is a large warbler, 18–20 cm long with a wingspan of 23–26 cm.
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