#Dalat bush warbler

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[2886/11080] Dalat bush warbler - Locustella idonea

Order: Passeriformes Suborder: Passeri Superfamily: Sylvioidea Family: Locustellidae Genus: Locustella (grass warblers)

Photo credit: Ngoc Sam Thuong Dang via Macaulay Library

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"Skulky and secretive speciality of the Kontum and Dalat Plateaus, in Vietnam’s central highlands. Like other Locustella warblers, much more easily heard than seen: listen for its buzzy, repetitive “bizee, bizee, bizee, bizee”, typically given from within a dense clump of grasses or shrubbery. A patient birder, with some luck, may be rewarded with a brief glimpse of this elusive and range-restricted songster in its tangled haunts--a drab brown bird with a white throat and weak eye-ring. Formerly regarded as a subspecies of Russet Bush Warbler (and under which it may be listed under older field guides)."

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[2886/11080] Dalat bush warbler - Locustella idonea

Order: Passeriformes Suborder: Passeri Superfamily: Sylvioidea Family: Locustellidae Genus: Locustella (grass warblers)

Photo credit: Ngoc Sam Thuong Dang via Macaulay Library