Sakhalin grasshopper warbler

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| image = Locustella fasciolata hokkaido japan.jpg

| image_caption = from Hokkaido, Japan

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |publisher=IUCN |title=Helopsaltes amnicola |author=BirdLife International |year=2016 |volume=2016 |page=e.T22734059A104196540 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22734059A104196540.en |url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22734059/104196540}}

| genus = Helopsaltes

| species = amnicola

| authority = (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.

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Category:Helopsaltes

Category:Birds described in 1972

Category:Birds of Japan

Category:Birds of Russia

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