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Clamorous Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus stentoreus)

Clamorous Reed Warbler
Photo: Ravi Vaidyanthan via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.5 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Clamorous Reed Warbler

The clamorous reed warbler (Acrocephalus stentoreus) is an Old World warbler in the genus Acrocephalus. It breeds from Egypt eastwards through Pakistan, Afghanistan and northernmost India to south China and southeast Asia. A. s. meridionalis is an endemic race in Sri Lanka. Nine subspecies are recognised: A. s. stentoreus (Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1833) – Egypt A. s. levantinus Roselaar, 1994 – Israel, Jordan, Syria and northwest Arabia A. s. brunnescens (Jerdon, 1839) – Red Sea region to Kazakhstan and north India A. s. amyae Baker, ECS, 1922 – northeast India, Myanmar, Thailand and south China A. s. meridionalis (Legge, 1875) – south India and Sri Lanka A. s. harterti Salomonsen, 1928 – Philippines (except Palawan group and Sulu Archipelago) A. s. siebersi Salomonsen, 1928 – west Java

Source: Clamorous reed warbler on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

A real field recording of the Clamorous Reed Warbler. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.

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Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.

Call (3:00) via xeno-canto.org/607747, licensed CC BY — free for commercial use.
Song (0:58) via xeno-canto.org/129322, licensed CC BY-SA — free for commercial use.

2 recordings on this page · licensed CC BY ×1 · CC BY-SA ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in China, India, Indonesia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Philippines and elsewhere · xeno-canto lists 211 recordings for this species in total.

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