Gray's grasshopper warbler

{{Speciesbox

| image = LocustellaFasciolataKeulemans.jpg

| image_caption = Illustration by J. G. Keulemans (1881)

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International. |year=2024 |title=Helopsaltes fasciolatus |volume=2024 |page=e.T103783163A263752607 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2024-2.RLTS.T103783163A263752607.en |access-date=20 February 2025}}

| genus = Helopsaltes

| species = fasciolatus

| authority = (G. R. Gray, 1861)

| synonyms =Locustella fasciolata

}}

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.

The Sakhalin grasshopper warbler was formerly considered conspecific.

Distribution and habitat

This small passerine bird breeds in southern Siberia, northeastern China and Korea. It is migratory, wintering in southeast Asia. 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

Category:Helopsaltes

Category:Birds of North Asia

Category:Birds of Manchuria

Category:Birds described in 1861

Category:Taxa named by George Robert Gray

Category:Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN