STRIATED GRASSBIRD

Photographed in Denpasar, Bali October 2016

(818)                   STRIATED GRASSBIRD                 Megalurus palustris

INDONESIA (Bali)         (18)        

Also known as Striated Warbler, Striated Marsh Warbler and Striated Canegrass Warbler. Found in grasslands, rice fields, open marshland, wet grassland and open country. Range: Three subspecies; subspecies palustris found in Java and Bali.

LITTLE GRASSBIRD

648            LITTLE GRASSBIRD                Megalurus gramineus

Australia          (490)

Found in dense wetland vegetation: cumbungi, reeds, rushes, canegrass, lignum, vegetation on bore-drains,; tidal-marshes, salt-lakes; mangroves. 13-15 cm. Range: e. and sw. Aust., Bass Strait islands, Tas., w. to Eyre Pen. (SA), Gulf Coast (Q). Patchy inland pockets of suitable habitats to Kununurra (n. WA). Locally common.

TAWNY GRASSBIRD

Photographed at Samsonville, Queensland August 2015

646         TAWNY GRASSBIRD           Megalurus timoriensis

Australia         (489)

 Found in coastal heaths, rank grasses, cane grass, combing swamps, grassy dunes, crops. Range: mostly coastal n. and e. Aust., from Kimberley (WA) to Shoalhaven R. (NSW), inland to Atherton Tablelands-Charters Towers-Tambo-Carnarvon Ras. NP (Q); Moree-Macquarie Marshes-Gilgandra (NSW); vagrant King Island; Bass Strait. 17-19 cm.