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Grass Warbler

  • Grass Warbler, Grasshopper Warbler, Helopsaltes, Locustellidae, Ho Chich Co

    Pallas's grasshopper warbler (Helopsaltes certhiola), also known as the rusty-rumped warbler, is an Old World warbler in the grass warbler genus Helopsaltes, the family Locustellidae.

    1/ Pallas's grasshopper warbler (Chích đầm lầy lớn, Helopsaltes certhiola)

  • Locustella

    The grass warblers (Grasshopper Warbler) are small passerine birds belonging to the genus Locustella, now considered the northernmost representatives of a largely Gondwanan family, the Locustellidae.

    The genus name Locustella is from Latin and is a diminutive of locusta, "grasshopper".

    1/ The lanceolated warbler (Chích đầm lầy nhỏ, Locustella lanceolata)
    2/ Chinese Bush-Warbler (Chích ngực hung, Bradypterus tacsanowskius or Locustella tacsanowskia???)
    3/ Brown bush warbler (Chích bụi rậm nâu, Locustella luteoventris )
    Formerly placed in the "Old World warbler" assemblage as Bradypterus luteoventrus, it is now placed in the newly recognized family Locustellidae.

    4/ Russet bush warbler (Chích nâu đỏ, Locustella mandelli)
    The scientific name commemorates the Italian naturalist Louis Mandelli.

    5/ Dalat bush warbler (Locustella idonea)
    Chích nâu đỏ Đà Lạt
    also known as Annam Grasshopper-Warbler
    Some authorities still consider Dalat bush warbler (Locustella idonea) conspecific with the russet bush warbler. 
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