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Acrocephalus bistrigiceps
Medium to small sized old world reed warbler. 13-14cm long and weighing in around 7-11gms. Mid brown dorsal surface, lightening to a fawn/cream on breast and belly. Diagnostic broad white supercilium with a well defined black brow and a much finer black eye stripe. Lower mandible is yellow and when singing this species displays a bright yellow gape.
Quite common in its range. It summers in eastern Asia from central China through to southern Russia and into Japan. Oddly it is very scarce in Korea. It winters further south in SE Asia. This bird was seen displaying just outside Vladivostok in southern Russia. It was in disused scrub land outside the airport.
Although a fairly plain little bird, this guy was very vocal and singing up a storm!
Spotted on Jun 22, 2015
Submitted on Feb 27, 2016
6 Comments
Thank you Polilla. Yes I heard the little critter a couple of paddocks away! ;)
Hi Mark. Amazed to be first one. This species is generally considered to be one of the more common ones in East and SE Asia. Numbers are thought to be increasing but for some reason that is hard to fathom they are still scarce in both the Korea's as summer breeding birds.
Is that scarcity in both north and south Korea ? :/ :( :O
Wow you're right! Congrats on the only and first one.
Thank you Mark. Is this the first spotting for this species on PN? I posted it because I couldn't find another one which surprised me.
Plainly a magnificent spotting :)