Gray's Grasshopper-warbler (Locustella fasciolata)

Other Names (World)
Gray's Grasshopper-Warbler, Gray's Warbler, Large Warbler, Large Grasshopper-warbler, Stepanyan's Warbler, Stepanyan's Grasshopper-warbler, Sakhalin Warbler (amnicola), Sakhalin Large Warbler (amnicola), Gray's Grasshopper Warbler

Family
Locustellidae (Grasshopper-warblers And Grassbirds)

Size
17.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Gray, 1860)

Range (Guide)

China (mainland), Indonesia, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Russia (Asian), Russia (Central Asian) (B), South Korea, Taiwan (China).

Vagrant to Denmark, France.

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 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (43)...)

Gray's Grasshopper Warbler (Helopsaltes fasciolatus) [XC266152]
by Geoffrey Monchaux from , Russian Federation (song)

Gray's Grasshopper Warbler (Helopsaltes fasciolatus) [XC486533]
by Stanislas Wroza from Bol'shaya Rechka, Irkutsky District, Irkutskaya oblast', Russian Federation (song)

Subspecies
Forms a species group with Pallas's Grasshopper-Warbler (Locustella certhiola), Middendorff's Grasshopper-Warbler (Locustella ochotensis) and Pleske's Grasshopper-warbler (Locustella pleskei) and it is also suggested that Marsh Grassbird (Locustella pryeri) is part of this group and should therefore be moved to present genus. Subspecies amnicola may warrant full species status.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

fasciolata (Gray, 1860) - Breeds south-central Siberia (from east of upper R Ob') east to south-eastern Russia (Amurland, Ussuriland) and north-eastern China. Non-breeding Philippines, Sulawesi, Moluccas and western New Guinea.
amnicola Stepanyan, 1972 - Sakhalin, southern Kuril Islands and Hokkaido. Winters in Philippines. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Sakhalin Grasshopper-warbler (Locustella amnicola).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Grays Grasshopper-warbler (Locustella fasciolata) - 10 files

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