Gray's grasshopper warbler
Species of bird
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Gray's grasshopper warbler (Helopsaltes fasciolatus), also known as Gray's warbler, is a species of bird in the family Locustellidae; it was formerly included in the "Old World warbler" assemblage.
| Gray's grasshopper warbler | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Locustellidae |
| Genus: | Helopsaltes |
| Species: | H. fasciolatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Helopsaltes fasciolatus (G. R. Gray, 1861) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Locustella fasciolata | |
The Sakhalin grasshopper warbler was formerly considered conspecific.
Distribution and habitat
Description
The adult has an unstreaked olive-brown back, uniformly grey breast and buff underparts, with unmottled dull orange undertail coverts.
The song is a short phrase, loud and distinctive; nothing like the insect-like reeling of European Locustella species, and more musical than that of Pallas's grasshopper warbler.
