ORIENTAL REED WARBLER

Photographed on Ashmore Reef, November 2019

1303                     ORIENTAL REED-WARBLER                  Acracephalus orientalis

AUSTRALIA               786

Migrant from n Asia, vagrant or rare wet season visitor to n Aust; less 10 confirmed records, but perhaps often overlooked.

ZITTING CISTICOLA

Photographed at Orient Road, Bronte, Queensland, March 2018

829                 ZITTING CISTICOLA              Cisticola juncidis    

AUSTRALIA               735

Also known as Streaked Fantail Warbler. Widespread throughout southern Europe, Africa, and southern Asia down to northern Australia. Many found in grassland, often near water. As many as 18 subspecies: 3 of these in Australia: leanyeri (northern Australia), normani (northwest Queensland) and laveryi (northeast Australia).

GREY WARBLER

Photographed at Matata, New Zealand, June 2017

1208                      GREY WARBLER                 Gerygone igata  

NEW ZEALAND                    68  

Found in scrub, forest, parks and gardens. 10 cm. Abundant endemic found throughout New Zealand.

CHESTNUT-CROWNED WARBLER

Photographed at Fraser's Hill, Malaysia, April 20171179      

1179                 CHESTNUT-CROWNED WARBLER              Seicercus castaniceps 

MALAYSIA            94

 In lower montane forest at c. 900-1,380 m. 10 cm. Resident from central Himalayan foothills through S China and Southeast Asia to Vietnam, and in the mountains of Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra.   

BLYTH'S REED WARBLER

1138                  BLYTH'S REED WARBLER              Acrocephalus dumetorum 

SRI LANKA            169

Found in bushes, undergrowth and roadbeds. 14 cm. Fairly common winter migrant throughout Sri Lanka.

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.

SRI LANKA BUSH WARBLER

March 2017

1102                SRI LANKA BUSH WARBLER               Bradypterus palliseri

SRI LANKA             124

Endemic. Found in dense forest undergrowth, occasionally in adjacent tea estates. 16 cm. Local and rather uncommon in high hills, rare in mid hills.

ARTIC WARBLER

Subspecies borealis photographed in Singapore November 2016

906             ARTIC WARBLER              Phylloscopus borealis

SINGAPORE               (51)

Common migrant found in primary and secondary forests, forest edge, mangroves, old plantations, scrub, parkland and urban areas, including on small islands. 12 cm. Distribution: Breeds from Scandinavia to Russian Far East, N Mongolia, NE China and Korea; winters across S China, and most of Southeast Asia.

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.

BLUE-BREASTED FAIRY-WREN

Photographed at Billy's Light Point, Port Lincoln, South Australia February 2016

759               BLUE-BREASTED FAIRY-WREN            Malurua pulcherrimus

Australia         (603)

Also known as Blue-breasted Superb Warbler or Blue-breasted Superb Fairy-wren. 13.5 - 15 cm. Found undergrowth in drier forrest, woodlands; sandplain-scrubs, heaths; tea-tree and mallee associations; low dense dune-vegetation, acacia-thickets, saltbush. In SA (Eyre Pen.) heath country, swampy localities. Range: broken distribution in sw WA and Eyre Pen. (SA).

Female.

NORFOLK ISLAND GERYGONE

Photographed on Norfolk Island January 2016

755                NORFOLK ISLAND GERYGONE            Gerygone modesta

Australia          (599)

Also known as Grey Warbler, or locally as ‘peurty’. Endemic to Norfolk Island. 10-11 cm. Found in most environments with tree or shrub cover, feeds in canopy of trees and shrubs, hover gleans from outer foliage. Common but regarded as Near Threatened because its whole population is on one island.

LARGE-BILLED GERYGONE

Photographed on the Daintree River, near Daintree Village October 2015

717             LARGE-BILLED GERYGONE         Gerygone magnirostris

Australia       (559)

Also known as Floodbird and Large-billed Warbler. 10.5-11.5 cm. Found in rainforests, paperbarks on streams; eucalyptus woodlands, mangroves, gardens. Range: coastal n. Aust., and islands, from McKay (Q) to w.Kimberley (WA). Common, sedentary.

Large-billed Gerygone nest

FAIRY GERYGONE

Photographed at Cooktown Botanic Gardens, Queensland October 2015

680      FAIRY GERYGONE           Gerygone palpebrosa

Australia            (522)

Race: personata, also known as Black-throated warbler. Found on the edges of lowland rainforest, vine forest, leafy trees on watercourses; eucalypt woodlands; scrubland; mangroves. Range: n and e Q and islands. Race: personata: Cape York Pen., s. to Atherton Tableland-Innesfail on e coast and Staten R on w coast. Race: flavida; coastal s. from c. Innesfail to Fraser Is., Tin Can Bay, Kin Kin, and Widgee in se Q. Fairly common,Sedentary. The distinctive races do overlap and interbreed.

Female

Nest, the bottom has caught on a branch as it swayed in the wind.

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.