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Long-billed Bush Warbler
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Long-billed Bush Warbler
Locustella major
The long-billed bush warbler (Locustella major) is a rare species of Old World warbler in the family Locustellidae.
It is found in China, India, Pakistan, and Tajikistan. It is also known as the long-billed grasshopper warbler.
From the article Long-billed bush warbler on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The Long-billed bush warbler is a small brown bird with pink legs, a relatively long black bill and brown eyes. Its body is brown with a pale breast, throat, and supercilium. Its song is a repetitive clicking noise similar to that of grasshopper but less buzzy.
Range & habitat
It is found in two disjunct populations, one (L. m. major) occurs in Tajikistan, Pakistan, Ladakh, and Kashmir. The other (L. m. innae) is found in the Kunlun Mountains in central Xinjiang, China. There are unconfirmed reports from Uzbekistan.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 339727.