Middendorff's grasshopper warbler

{{Short description|Species of bird}}

{{Speciesbox

| name = Middendorff's grasshopper warbler

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=Helopsaltes ochotensis |volume=2016 |page=e.T22714669A94423719 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22714669A94423719.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}

| image = Wiki-simasennyu.jpg

| image_caption = In Hokkaido, Japan

| range_map =Locustella ochotensis distribution map.png

| range_map_caption = Distribution of Middendorff's grasshopper warbler {{leftlegend|#FFFF00|Breeding|outline=gray}} {{leftlegend|#0000FF|Non-breeding|outline=gray}}

| genus = Helopsaltes

| species = ochotensis

| authority = (Middendorff, 1853)

| synonyms = Locustella ochotensis

}}

Middendorff's grasshopper warbler (Helopsaltes ochotensis) is a species of Old World warbler in the family Locustellidae.

It breeds in eastern Siberia to northern Japan, Kamchatka Peninsula and northern Kuril Islands. It winters in the Philippines, Borneo and Sulawesi and in small numbers in China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan and the U.S.A.

The common name commemorates Alexander Theodor von Middendorff (1815–1894), a German–Russian naturalist who traveled extensively in Siberia.{{cite book|last=Beolens|first=Bo|title=Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds|year=2003|publisher=Christopher Helm|location=London|page=234|author2=Watkins, Michael}}

Description

Middendorff's grasshopper warbler is {{cvt|15.5|cm}} in length. The crown, nape, lores and eye-stripe are greyish brown. The mantle is browner and more olive. The supercilium is pale creamy, extending to the ear coverts. The rump and uppertail coverts are more yellowish or rufous brown. The graduated, white-tipped tail may appear rounded. Its song is a high-pitched, spaced chit, chit, which precedes a trilled {{not a typo|trrrrrrrr-schoy-schoy-schoy}}, call; {{not a typo|tluk, tluk}},...; it also performs a short song flight. Its habitat is forests near water and scrubwoods.{{cite book|title=A Field Guide to the Birds of Korea |year=2005 |isbn=89-951415-3-0|last1=Lee |first1=Woo-Shin }}

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