Wildlifeof China
Middendorff's Grasshopper Warbler
Warblers & Cisticolas
Photo: John Gerrard Keulemans · Public domain
Locustella ochotensis
Basic stats
Habitat
Forests near water and scrubwoods
Range
Breeds in eastern Siberia to northern Japan; winters in the Philippines, Borneo and Sulawesi and in small numbers in China, Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan
Size
15.5 cm
Middendorff's grasshopper warbler (Helopsaltes ochotensis) breeds in eastern Siberia to northern Japan, the Kamchatka Peninsula and the northern Kuril Islands and winters in the Philippines, Borneo and Sulawesi, with small numbers in China, Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan. It is 15.5 cm long, with a greyish-brown crown, nape and eye-stripe, a browner and more olive mantle and a pale creamy supercilium, and a graduated, white-tipped tail. Its habitat is forest near water and scrubwoods. (Wikipedia, general species account)
The song is a high-pitched, spaced chit, chit followed by a trilled trrrrrrrr-schoy-schoy-schoy, and it also performs a short song flight. The name commemorates the German-Russian naturalist Alexander von Middendorff. (Wikipedia, general species account)
Quick answers
- What habitat does the Middendorff's Grasshopper Warbler live in?
- Forests near water and scrubwoods
- Where is the Middendorff's Grasshopper Warbler found?
- Breeds in eastern Siberia to northern Japan; winters in the Philippines, Borneo and Sulawesi and in small numbers in China, Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan
- How big is the Middendorff's Grasshopper Warbler?
- 15.5 cm