Sakhalin grasshopper warbler

Sakhalin grasshopper warbler
from Hokkaido, Japan
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Locustellidae
Genus:	Helopsaltes
Species:	H. amnicola
Binomial name
Helopsaltes amnicola (Stepanyan, 1972)
Synonyms
Locustella amnicola

Sakhalin grasshopper warbler (Helopsaltes amnicola), is a species of bird in the family Locustellidae; it was formerly included in the "Old World warbler" assemblage.

Distribution and habitat

This small passerine bird breeds on Sakhalin, the southern Kuril Islands and Hokkaido. It is a species found in lowland and coastal regions, nesting in forests or thickets.

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.

References

1. BirdLife International (2016). "Helopsaltes amnicola". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T22734059A104196540. IUCN. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22734059A104196540.en .