Striated Grassbird (Megalurus palustris)

Other Names (World)
Striated Grassbird, Striated Warbler, Striated Marsh Warbler, Striated Canegrass Warbler

Family
Locustellidae (Grasshopper-warblers And Grassbirds)

Size
21.50 - 28 cm

First Described (Guide)
Horsfield, 1821

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical seasonally wet / flooded grassland, marshes, swamps. Also, rural gardens, arable land, irrigated land.

Range (Guide)

Bangladesh, Cambodia, China (mainland), India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines (B), Russia (Asian) (B), Thailand, Vietnam.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Habits
Singly or in pairs. Often sings loudly from a conspicuous perch.

Food
Small invertebrates.

Voice
Song is a rich bubbling 'pit pit pit pri pri pwee-pwee-pwee', the first notes softer. Also a variety of shorter and longer phrases.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (94)...)

Striated Grassbird (Megalurus palustris) [XC635413]
by Thet Zaw Naing from Rajarhat, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India (uncertain)

Striated Grassbird (Megalurus palustris) [XC544572]
by Agris Celmins from Kecamatan Bumiaji, Kota Batu, Jawa Timur, Indonesia (song)

Subspecies
Described subspecies andrewsi (from Myanmar-China border) treated as synonym of toklao.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

palustris Horsfield, 1821 - Java and Bali.
toklao (Blyth, 1843) - North-eastern Pakistan (eastern Punjab) east across northern India and southern Nepal to north-eastern India (Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, southern Arunachal Pradesh), Myanmar, southern China (Yunnan, southern Guizhou, Guangxi), south-eastern Thailand, Cambodia, northern Laos and northern, central and southern Vietnam.
forbesi Bangs, 1919 - Philippines and north-eastern Borneo (Sabah).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Striated Grassbird (Megalurus palustris) - 10 files

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