River Warbler (Locustella fluviatilis)
About the River Warbler
The river warbler (Locustella fluviatilis) is an Old World warbler in the genus Locustella. It breeds in eastern and central Europe and is migratory, wintering in inland southern Africa, from around the Zambezi River south to the vicinity of Pretoria in South Africa. The genus name Locustella is from Latin and is a diminutive of locusta, "grasshopper". This refers to the song of the common grasshopper warbler and some others in this genus. The specific fluviatilis is Latin for "of a river". It is a monotypic species, meaning it has no subspecies.
A real field recording of the River 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.
1 recording on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland and elsewhere · xeno-canto lists 700 recordings for this species in total.
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Species grouped by shared genus, family and range.