CLAMOROUS REED WARBLER

Subspecies meridionalis, March 2017

(*  420)           CLAMOROUS REED WARBLER              Acrocephalus stentoreus

SRI LANKA          137

Also known as Indian Reed Warbler. Found in reed beds and tangles around wetlands. 19 cm. Locally rather common breeding resident throughout dry lowlands, occasionally visits wet zone.

CLAMOUROUS REED-WARBLER

Photographed at Bendigo, Victoria, November 2014.

420         CLAMOUROUS REED-WARBLER        Acrocephalus stentoreus

Australia              (294)

Also known as Australian Reed Warbler, Redbird, Reedlark, Water Sparrow. 16-17 cm. Habitat reeds, cumbungi, pencil rush, over water; river red gum regrowth; weeping willows, bamboos, crops near irrigation channels, public gardens. Widespread e. and coastal WA, mostly south of Tropic; uncommon in Tasmania.