| Fan-tailed Grassbird | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Locustellidae |
| Genus: | Schoenicola |
| Species: | S. brevirostris |
| Binomial name | |
| Schoenicola brevirostris Sundevall, 1850 |
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| Synonyms | |
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Catriscus apicalis |
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The Fan-tailed Grassbird or Broad-tailed Warbler (Schoenicola brevirostris) is a species of Old World warbler in the Locustellidae family. It is found in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland and swamps.