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What the Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler sounds like
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This is a medium-sized warbler. The adult has a streaked brown back, whitish grey underparts, unstreaked except on the undertail. The sexes are identical, as with most warblers, but young birds are yellower below. Like most warblers, it is insectivorous. It is very similar to the common grasshopper warbler, but is slightly larger, has white tips to the tail and tertial feathers, and a warmer brown rump. The white tips are the reason for its colloquial, mnemonic name of "PG Tips". This is a skulking species which is very difficult to see except sometimes when singing. Voice: The song is not the mechanical insect-like reeling produced by the common grasshopper warbler and some other Locustella warblers, but an inventive Acrocephalus-like melody.
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When to see the Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler
The map shades 21 countries with regular records, and 11 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 Kingdom, Norway, Belgium, Sweden, United States, Australia, Japan, Germany, France, Philippines, Morocco.
About the Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler
Pallas's grasshopper warbler, also known as the rusty-rumped warbler, is an Old World warbler in the genus Helopsaltes. It breeds in the eastern Palearctic: from the Altai Mountains, Mongolia and Transbaikalia to northeastern China, the Korean Peninsula, and islands in the Sea of Okhotsk. It is migratory, wintering from India eastward to Indonesia. It is a rare migrant in Sri Lanka.
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Easily confused with
Middendorff's Grasshopper WarblerHelopsaltes ochotensisMiddendorff's grasshopper warbler is 15.5 cm (6.1 in) in length.
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.
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