Moustached Warbler (Acrocephalus melanopogon) [XC542357]
by Sean Ronayne from Zellsee S\u00fcdteich, Weilheim-Schongau (near Wessobrunn), Oberbayern, Bayern, Germany (imitation, song, mimicry\/imitation)
Moustached Warbler (Acrocephalus melanopogon) [XC408248]
by Jordi Calvet from El Prat de Llobregat (Delta del Llobregat), Barcelona, Catalunya, Turkey (song)
Subspecies
Recent genetic study suggests that Moustached Warbler (Acrocephalus melanopogon), Sedge Warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus), Aquatic Warbler (Acrocephalus paludicola) and Black-browed Reed-Warbler (Acrocephalus bistrigiceps) form a monophyletic clade, the "striped reed-warbler group", in which traditionally Streaked Reed-Warbler (Acrocephalus sorghophilus) is also included.
Individuals of nominate subspecies from Austria differ genetically and morphologically from birds of subspecies mimicus from Kazakhstan (L Alakol).
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
melanopogon (Temminck, 1823) - Southern Europe east to eastern Ukraine (Kharkov) and western Turkey, and north-western Africa.
albiventris (Kazakov, 1974) - Shores of Sea of Azov, lower R Don and Krasnodar area (south-eastern Ukraine and adjacent southern Russia).
mimicus (Madarász, 1903) - Breeds southern and eastern Turkey, Iraq, southern Russia (lower R Volga) and northern Iran east to eastern Kazakhstan. Non-breeding also Afghanistan and north-western Indian Subcontinent.