Spotted Grasshopper-warbler (Locustella thoracica)

Other Names (World)
Spotted Grasshopper-warbler, Spotted Bush-Warbler, Grey-breasted Bush-warbler, Gray-breasted Bush-warbler, Spotted Scrub-warbler, Spotted Bush Warbler

Family
Locustellidae (Grasshopper-warblers And Grassbirds)

Size
11.50 - 14 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Blyth, 1845)

Habitat
Temperate shrubland. From 3,000 - 4,850 m.

Range (Guide)

Bangladesh (NB), Bhutan (B) (NB), China (mainland) (B) (NB), India (B) (NB), Myanmar (B), Nepal (B) (NB).

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2011).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (44)...)

Spotted Bush Warbler (Locustella) [XC116922]
by Oscar Campbell from Nam Kham Nature Reserve, Chiang Saen District, Chiang Rai, India (song)

Spotted Bush Warbler (Locustella) [XC791723]
by Sandip das from Haidong Shi, Qinghai Sheng, India (song)

Subspecies
Bradypterus thoracicus (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) has been split into Spotted Grasshopper-warbler (Locustella thoracica) and Baikal Grasshopper-warbler (Locustella davidi) following Round and Loskot (1995).

Usually considered conspecific with Baikal Grasshopper-warbler (Locustella davidi), but differs in song and migratory behaviour, as well as morphologically. Western subspecies kashmirensis currently of uncertain taxonomic status and may represent a separate species.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

kashmirensis (Sushkin, 1925) - Breeds western Himalayas of north-western India (Himachal Pradesh, Uttaranchal Pradesh); possibly also Kashmir. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Himalayan Grasshopper-warbler (Locustella kashmirensis).
thoracica (Blyth, 1845) - Breeds central and eastern Himalayas from Nepal, Bhutan and north-eastern India east to northern Myanmar, and western and southern China (from south-eastern Xizang and Yunnan east to north-central Sichuan, Guizhou, and Dayao Shan region of Guangxi). Non-breeding Himalayan foothills from western Nepal east to north-eastern India (Arunachal Pradesh).
przevalskii (Sushkin, 1925) - Breeds central China (eastern Tibetan plateau of northern Qinghai east to south-western Gansu and southern Shaanxi).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Spotted Grasshopper-warbler (Locustella thoracica) - 10 files

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