Broad-tailed Grassbird
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The Broad-Tailed Grassbird (Schoenicola platyurus) is a species of Old World warbler in the Sylviidae family. It is found only in India.
[edit] Description
The uniform brown upperparts, broad and long tail of the bird is distinctive. The species has a buff supercilium and the tail has thin dark bars on the brown. The call of the male during breeding is a lark like and repeated trill that is accompanied by a fluttering flight.[2] Other calls include a chack and a zink note. In the non-breeding season, it is a skulker.[1]
[edit] Distribution
The species is restricted to grassy highlands highlands, principally in the Western Ghats of southern India. A specimen has been collected at Point Calimere and suggests that the bird may be involved in local movements or migrations.[3] Suggestions that it may occur in Sri Lanka are as yet not supported.[1]
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, and swamps. It is threatened by habitat loss.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d BirdLife International 2004. Schoenicola platyurus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 10 July 2007.
- ^ Raman ,T. R. S. (1998) Observations on the vocalizations and display of the Broadtailed Grass Warbler (Schoenicola platyura) (Jerdon). Newsl. for Birdwatchers. 38(1):6.
- ^ Hussain,SA (1976) Occurrence of the Broadtailed Grass Warbler ISchoenicola platyura (Jerdon)] on the Coromandel coast. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 73(2):400-401.
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