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What the Oriental Reed Warbler sounds like
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It is a large warbler, 18–20 cm long with a wingspan of 23–26 cm. The plumage is brown above with a paler rump and whitish tips to the tail feathers. The underparts are whitish below, browner on the flanks and undertail-coverts. There are narrow greyish streaks on the throat and breast. It has a dark eyestripe and a whitish stripe above the eye. The fairly long, heavy bill is brownish above and pink below with a bright orange gape. The feet are grey. It is slightly smaller, slenderer and shorter-winged than the great reed warbler.
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When to see the Oriental Reed Warbler
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Oriental Reed Warbler
The map shades 20 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 Australia, Timor-Leste.
About the Oriental Reed Warbler
The Oriental reed warbler is a passerine bird of eastern Asia belonging to the reed warbler genus Acrocephalus. It was formerly classified as a subspecies of the great reed warbler of the western Palearctic.
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Easily confused with
Moustached WarblerAcrocephalus melanopogonThe moustached warbler is 12–13 cm (4.7–5.1 in) long, slightly smaller than the similar sedge warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus).
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.
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