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 VU    Pleske's Warbler* Id (Atlas):
    Locustella pleskei

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Pleske's Grasshopper-Warbler, Pleske's warbler, Styan's Warbler, Styan's Grasshopper-warbler, Taczanowski's Warbler, Taczanowski's Grasshopper-warbler, Styan's Grasshopper Warbler

Family
Locustellidae (Grasshopper-warblers And Grassbirds)

Size
13 - 14 cm

First Described (Guide)
Taczanowski, 1889

Habitat
Wet areas of thick grasses and reeds and in areas of low bushes. In wintering range, in extensive reedbeds, low shrubs near reedbeds and mangroves. From sea-level - 350 m.

Range (Guide)
China (mainland) (P), Hong Kong (China) (NB), Japan (B), Russia (Asian) (B), South Korea (B).

Vagrant to North Korea.

Breeds on islands in extreme south-eastern Russia (islets in Peter the Great Bay, in southern Ussuriland), southern Korea (Ullung I, off eastern coast, also small islands off southern & western coasts) and southern Japan (Izu Is, also small islands off south-western Honshu and Kyushu), probably also coastal northern Korea; non-breeding in coastal south-eastern China and northern Vietnam.
 
Population
Estimated population is 2,500 - 9,999 (2010) and decreasing.

Status VU
Habitat loss and degradation through development is the main threat.

For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Habits
Reluctant to fly when disturbed.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (41)...)

 
Styan's Grasshopper Warbler (Helopsaltes pleskei) [XC756809]
     by Geoff Carey from Izu Cape, Miyakejima, Japan (call, song)

 
Styan's Grasshopper Warbler (Helopsaltes pleskei) [XC285827]
     by Peter Boesman from Izu Cape, Miyakejima, Japan (song)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Forms a superspecies with Pallas's Warbler (Locustella certhiola) and Middendorff's Grasshopper-Warbler (Locustella ochotensis). Has been considered conspecific with one or both.

Similar Species
Middendorff's Grasshopper-Warbler (Locustella ochotensis) which has browner mantle and scapulars, more noticeable supercilium and eye-stripe and pale outer web to the long, outermost primary. Generally paler underparts.


References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Pleskes Warbler (Locustella pleskei) - 10 files


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