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 LC    Japanese Bush-Warbler* Id (Atlas):
    Horornis diphone

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Japanese Bush-Warbler, Singing Bush-warbler, Chinese Bush-warbler, Oriental Bush-warbler, Short-winged Reed-warbler, Manchurian Bush-warbler (canturians), Japanese Bush Warbler

Family
Scotocercidae (Bush-warblers)

Size
14 - 16.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Kittlitz, 1830)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry grassland, moist shrubland, temperate forest.

Range (Guide)
China (mainland), Japan, North Korea, Philippines, Russia (Asian), South Korea, Taiwan (China).

Introduced to USA.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (108)...)

 
Japanese Bush Warbler (Horornis diphone) [XC286125]
     by from Yambaru area, Okinawa, Japan (song)

 
Japanese Bush Warbler (Horornis diphone) [XC155854]
     by Frank Lambert from Miyake-jima, lakeside (2), Japan (song)

Subspecies
Sometimes treated as conspecific with Philippine Bush-Warbler (Horornis seebohmi). Subspecies canturians has been considered a separate species on basis of differences in plumage and voice. Further study is required. Birds from southern Kuril Is described as subspecies viridis, considered synonymous with sakhalinensis. Borodino Is subspecies restricta (rich rufous-brown above, greyish-olive wash on breast side to undertail-coverts) extinct.

The following 8 subspecies are recognised:

  • borealis (Kittlitz, 1830)   -  Breeds north-eastern China, adjacent south-eastern Russia (southern Ussuriland) and Korea. Non-breeding eastern China (Fujian), Taiwan and northern Philippines (Batan Is, Luzon). Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Manchurian Bush-Warbler (Horornis canturians).
  • sakhalinensis (Yamashina, 1927)   -  Southern Sakhalin and southern Kuril Is. Non-breeding south-eastern China.
  • cantans (Temminck & Schlegel, 1847)   -  Japan, incuding coastal islands south to Yaku-shima, Tanega-shima and Hachijo-jima, also Tsushima and Quelpart I (Cheju-do).
  • riukiuensis Kuroda, Nagamichi, 1925   -  Ryukyu Is (from Amami-o-shima south to Iriomote-jima).
  • diphone (Kittlitz, 1830)   -  Southern Izu Is, Ogasawara Is and Iwo Is.
  • canturians (Swinhoe, 1860)   -  Central, eastern China, south-eastern Siberia and Korea. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Manchurian Bush-Warbler (Horornis canturians).
  • restrictus Kuroda, Nagamichi, 1923   -  Daito Islands.
  • viridis Portenko, 1955   -  Southern Sakhalin and southern Kuril Islands. Winters to south-eastern China.



References
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Files:
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